The WSJ is out to lunch on this one, they are wrong, it is less than 50% who have their income tax withheld not more than 50%. The WSJ uses the faulty number of only 8 million illegals, which we know is not true, so their numbers are hedged. The audacity to cite that 50% pay income tax is just over to top!
Plus, your right the remaining who do have taxes withheld lie about their dependents and are eligible to not only be void of any liability but actually receive funds in child credits!
They say they say the can’t make millions of people follow the law , and if we complain we are racists, or it would be un Christan to have any laws, yet over 90% of Americans pay all their taxes at the force of a gun, and that is justified!
Then the underground economy is not even being looked at when it comes to the lost taxes. Over 50% of the Mexican nationals living in the US are not on the books, while the rest of us work legitimately and do pay.
“Illegal immigrants hold about 12 million to 15 million jobs in the United States, or about 8 percent, meaning the government may be foregoing $35 billion a year in income tax collections” Bob Justich senior managing director for Bear Stearns,
The Milken Institute has released a study called the “Los Angeles Economy Project”, which reports that nearly 680,000 workers in the Los Angeles region alone work in the underground, cash-only economy. Needless to say, most of those involved are illegal aliens. And, this situation costs the cities, counties, and feds two billion dollars in lost revenues.
The underground economy is undermining the effectiveness of the Internal Revenue Service, which is highly dependent on employees’ withholding taxes. If the IRS could collect all the taxes it says that it is owed from the underground economy in a given year, then the current budget deficit would disappear overnight.
Perfect Illegal Alien Tax Paying Family
Juan earns $10.00 an hour, roughly $21,000 per year. He and his lovely wife, Rosario, speak little English and their 4 children speak very little also. The federal withholding on $400.00 per week with 6 dependents is $30.98 or $1610.96 for the year. That doesn’t bother Juan because he gets earned income credit and gets all of the $1610.96 back plus a few thousand more. Take home pay would be $326.42. Juan rents and his sister, brother and some cousins in live in the house also. Some of his take home goes to pay rent and utilities, let’s say 25% or $4400 per year. That leaves $12574 that he can spend and he spends most and contributes $1006.00 in 8% sales tax. Since his landlord pays real estate taxes on the house Juan can tell you he pays real estate taxes but on a rental of $375.00 per month the total tax bill is only $1200.00 or less per year split amongst the 12 people in the house that’s only $100.00 each. Several of the children were born in the US and since he couldn’t afford the medical bills, the government paid for that. One was born premature, spent three months in the neonatal incubator and cost the local hospital more than $300,000. The children also qualify for food stamps. His kids in school cost the state and federal governments about $8000.00 per year each. Since English isn’t spoken at home, Juan’s children get special classes for English as a second language and their other teachers can’t spend extra time trying to teach your kids because Juan’s kids do not understand fully. They get free breakfast & lunches. Each year they use the emergency room a few times and can not be denied treatment nor does he have to pay. Juan doesn’t have to get auto insurance because he can’t get a license nor would he if he could. Juan’s brother Jesus has a bad cough and he thinks it might be TB but doesn’t want to miss work in the local restaurant to get it checked out. Juan’s landlord only had a one car garage so Jesus has to park in the front yard next to his cousin Emilio’s truck.
This is the perfect ILLEGAL family that sends no money back to homeland. Consider the millions that are not perfect. If 40% of 15 million work off the books, that’s 6 million that are not paying in any taxes. Every day we read of hundreds that are cheating on their identities. They teach their children by example every day when the break the law. We tax payers see this every day and see our taxes go up every year and our wait times at doctors get longer and bills get more expensive. What if 40% of American taxpayers did what these ILLEGALS
do very week?