Posted on 03/21/2007 9:20:12 PM PDT by Huntress
I looked at the conclusion of the report, which states that illegals generate $474 million more in taxes than they use.
Oops. $424.7 million more.
The Texas report is bogus. It ignores MUCH. Like the earned income credit the few that do pay taxes get back.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalfindings.html
Treasury Department Report. The results of our study are also buttressed by an analysis of illegal alien tax returns done by the Inspector General's Office of the Department of Treasury in 2004.35 That study found that 55 percent of illegal aliens who filed income tax returns using tax identification numbers had no federal income tax liability. While higher than the 45 percent estimated in this study, it must be remembered that this figure was only for those who filed tax returns using a tax identification number. These are all individuals who expected refunds, otherwise they would not have gone to the trouble of getting tax identification numbers and filing a return. But like our estimates, the Inspector General's report indicates that roughly half of illegals have no tax liability, reflecting their very low incomes and large number of dependents. ________________
http://www.ustreas.gov/tigta/congress/congress_03102004.htm
The number of ITINs issued in the last few years has increased dramatically, climbing from 1.1 million in 2001 to 1.5 million in 2002--a one-year increase of about 36 percent. Normally, ITINs would be used to file a Form 1040NRU.S. Nonresident Alien Income Tax Return. However, many ITINs are used to file Forms 1040, which creates challenges for tax administration. Our analysis of Forms 1040 filed in Tax Year 2001 with ITINs found that approximately 530,000 Forms 1040 were filed with ITINs as the primary number by aliens who resided in the U.S., but who were not authorized to work and, in general, to reside in the U.S.
* These returns reported adjusted gross income of $10.7 billion. After tax deductions and credits, these tax returns reported a total liability of $184 million. * Over half of the tax returns reported no tax liability, and $522 million in tax refunds were claimed on these returns.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/04/gb.01.html
BECK: This is insanity. You know, I just saw a number -- and tell me if this number is right, if you even have it -- I just saw a number on, in 2004, what we paid illegal aliens in tax refunds, 2004. Do you know this number?
CAMAROTA: Yes, I believe -- the figure I`ve heard is about $10 billion. That`s based on estimates that the Treasury Department has done itself, $10 billion they paid back to illegal aliens.
BECK: That is insane. We`re paying them $10 billion, and we can`t arrest them, we can`t even find them, we don`t even know -- $10 billion? And now we`re giving them Social Security, one that we don`t need another country to sabotage for us. We`re doing it ourselves. The whole thing is going to collapse.
CAMAROTA: Yes, and what`s worse than that is, that the IRS issues them tax I.D. numbers so that they can then file their income tax with their false Social Security numbers so that we can give them their $10 billion back.
BECK: OK, all right. So the last thing here -- let me just role play here for a second. I`m an illegal alien. I have to now go to the government and prove to the government that I have a fake I.D., that I bought a fake Social Security card on the street in the black market, and then the government rewards me for that, right?
CAMAROTA: Yes, in effect, sure. Once you get legal status, then you apply for the credits that you earned while you were an illegal alien. And the way you do that is like you said: You show your false documents. You bring out your bogus tax returns, and so forth.
Transplant patient, illegal alien, dies. Unfortunate.
She could have been one of these transplant patients who died because of a disease dragged over the border by one of her countrymen.
Rare Disease Reported in Transplants
Jul 27 2:16 PM US/Eastern
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By MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer
ATLANTA
Two U.S. heart transplant patients who died earlier this year had
contracted a parasitic tropical disease from their new organs, health
officials reported Thursday.
The two California men are the fourth and fifth U.S. patients believed
to have been infected with Chagas' disease through organ transplants,
according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Organ donors are screened for Chagas' in South America, where the
disease is much more common. No screening test for Chagas' is licensed
in the United States.
The two men, ages 64 and 73, died at separate Los Angeles hospitals
after being treated with Chagas'-fighting drugs from a special CDC
stockpile of medicines not available in this country.
The infected organs came from one person born in Central America and
another who had traveled to Mexico, the CDC reported.
One of the transplant patients died of something other than Chagas'
disease, CDC officials said. No autopsy was done on the second man, so
the role of Chagas' in his death is not known, said Heather Kun, a CDC
epidemiologist who led the investigation.
Chagas' disease can cause high fever, swelling, enlargement of the
spleen, liver and lymph nodes, and inflammation of the heart.
Most people infected do not get sick, but the disease can be fatal in
some cases and can be especially dangerous to people with suppressed
immune systems. Transplant patients receive immune-suppressing drugs
to prevent organ rejection.
"We think physicians need to look out for this" in patients taking
medication that suppresses the immune system, said Dr. Anne Moore, a
CDC epidemiologist.
In 2001, the CDC reported three cases of Chagas' in three U.S. women
who had received organs from an immigrant from Central America.
Doctors presumed the donor was infected, but no specimens were
available for testing.
Chagas' is spread by reduviid bugs, which live in the cracks and holes
of substandard housing. They are called "kissing bugs" because they
often bite people in the face. The bugs' feces contain a single-celled
parasite that can get pushed beneath the skin when people scratch
themselves or rub their eyes.
About 12 million people in Central and South America are infected with
Chagas', but only 100,000 U.S. residents have it, according to rough
estimates.
http://groups.google.co.jp/group/misc.health.alternative/browse_thread/thread/e324fe4436ac94a1/5db793b6948f75cd?lnk=raot
What about medicaid, food stamps and education?
Thank you for your diligence. I believe illegals have been taking us to the cleaners. I was in a situation where my son needed emergency dental work, our dentist did not have hours and I went to a children's clinic. It was packed, I sat for 3 hours watching Mexican T.V., I was one of the very, very few who actually spoke english, I sat right next to the desk and watched one by one, as everybody but me used a medicaid card while I had to pay for services.
I'm afraid it's going to get worse before it gets better. 2 years ago, my x husb was in a car wreck, broken leg, shattered ankle, bruised sternum, etc. They took him to LA county. About a week later, I found out about the wreck. In two weeks they had not even xrayed him! When he'd ask for a phone, they'd drug him. He was just about dead by the time my kids got down there. And NO ONE in the place could speak English. This is how we treat our combat veterans.
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