I don't buy the claims made in the article. It probably doesn't factor in the costs of things like extra school constuction/expansion, additional police, fire, hospital space and staff.
Those kinds of articles simply tote up the amount of welfare services, like Aid to Dependent Children, etc., that illegals usually can't get access to. Actually, it's so easy for an illegal to get a fake birth certificate and then SS cards, many do manange to get food stamps.
I don't think you can assume all illegals are paid in cash
I don't assume that at all. Plus I never said that or alluded to it.
approximately $80,000 more in taxes per capita than they use in government services
I don't even think that statement would be true for the bottom 60% of the legal residents of this country. Not if one allocates costs properly, i.e. follows GAAP relative to cost accounting rules. Plenty of people are getting back more than they pay in. This is why state budgets are in trouble.
I'd have to see the entire Texas Comptroller's disclosure and see how those numbers were derived to even begin to accept that particular claim. To start with, to pay property taxes that go to the schools, an illegal would have to be a homeowner and have had sufficient provable income to support a mortgage.
The poultry and orchard businesses have brought illegals in by the truckloads in my area. For the first several years, they typically are living ten people in a rented house. They quickly overloaded the school system which led to all kinds of new school construction and/or portable classrooms. My area has even seen the construction of two new huge hospitals in the last decade, plus a wing added to a third.
The effects of illegal Hispanics on my tri-county area, inc. crime, DUI rates, and driving w/o insurance, are well-documented and published in the paper. I know many people who won't eat any Tyson Foods product as a silent protest against it because Tyson is the most eggregious offender. |
