Your Taxes = Benefits For Illegal Aliens + Remittances to Mexico

According to a study by the Center for Immigrant Studies, the average
household headed by an illegal immigrant takes about $2700 more out of
our Federal and State governments than it pays in (education, food
stamps for their children, free lunches, Medicaid, etc. - not even
counting how many illegal immigrants live in taxpayer-subsidized
Section 8 housing). (It's probably worse by now, this was based on
2002 data, and increasingly illegal immigrants come here poor and with
children and an awareness of benefit eligibility).

Steve...

Did the Center for Immigrant Studies happen to mention that in 2002 the
average U.S. household took about $3200 more out of our Federal and
State governments than it paid in.

Robert Kolker...

Average U.S. families have 1.8 children and .75 dogs. In short, there
are no average families.

Bob Kolker

* about 109 million households in 2002

* about $158 billion in federal budget deficit in FY2002 (from
10/1/2001 to 9/30/2002)
(receipts $1.853 trillion, outlays $2.011 trillion

* about $186 billion in state budget deficits in 2002
(revenue $1.097 trillion, expenditures $1.283 trillion

If you use overall public debt instead, that went up $421 billion from
9/30/2001 to 9/30/2002 - or about $3,900 more per average household.

George Leroy Tyrebiter, Jr....

Don't use that. It includes intergovernmental transfers - transfers
from pocket A of the govt to its pocket B. Which are merely accounting
entries, not an increase in the net debt of the govt. You could argue
that they represent in some crude way an increase in liabilities, but
it's a sloppy measure.

Meanwhile the average illegal alien is sending roughly $2000 a year
average back to Mexico and their other home countries -

That's where some of your tax money goes - to feed people ostensibly
poor, who are sending their money out of our economy and into Mexico's.
Why don't we just send it directly and cut out the middleman? What a
bunch of bull****.