Monday, July 2, 2007

Openness to Low Quality of Immigration Vastly Increases the Level of Aggression on the Net Taxpayer of Our Citizenry, To Whom Loyalty is Owed


IN SPITE OF OFFICIAL ATTEMPTS TO OBSCURE IT, THE FACTS ARE THAT LOW-INCOME IMMIGRANTS
ARE OVERWHELMINGLY A CHARGE ON THE NET TAXPAYER, as the below quote indicates:

"Robert Rector, Real Clear Politics, June 27, 2007

Monday’s column from the Administration’s Karl Zinsmeister and Edward Lazear (“Lead Weight or Gold Mine: What are the True Costs of Immigration?” June 25, RCP) is a study in misdirection and misstatement. Since they devote much of their piece to attacking my research, I’d like to set the record straight.[...]

* Low-skill individuals (i.e., those without a high school degree) receive far more in benefits and services than they pay in taxes.

* The net fiscal cost of the families headed by low-skill immigrants is not markedly different from the cost of families headed by low-skill non-immigrants.

* Low-skill immigrants receive, on average, three dollars in government benefits for each dollar of taxes paid. This imbalance generates a net cost of $89 billion per year on U.S. taxpayers. Over a lifetime the typical low-skill immigrant household costs taxpayers $1.2 million dollars.

* Immigrants are disproportionately low-skilled. One-third of all immigrants and more than half (50 to 60 percent) of illegal immigrants lack a high school degree."
[Rector, however, does not include
the cost of interest on the net public subsidy
of immigrants, which, among other omitted charges
attributable to them, would add greatly on to his estimates.]
Speaking of immigration, so that "...the issue is framed--as a matter of equal rights and the blessings of diversity on one side, versus "racism" on the other--tends to cut off all rational discourse on the subject." -View From the Right. Is it done rhetorically this way, because no rational argument can be adduced for such degrees of openness?

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