Posted on 2/15/2008, 1:26:09 PM by chambley1
RICHMOND (AP) - Illegal immigrants contribute an estimated $400 million to Virginia's economy annually in taxes, according to a study released Thursday by a group hoping to counter some anti-illegal immigrant sentiment in the legislature.
The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis estimates that illegal immigrants contribute between $379 million and $453 million a year in income, sales, property and other taxes.
"Some of the strongest voices against immigration in Virginia have characterized undocumented immigrants as takers, as people who do not contribute to our state and to our community. This research clearly demonstrates that they are wrong,'' said Michael Cassidy, executive director of the organization.
The study recognizes there is no way to calculate exactly how much illegal immigrants pay in taxes.
It uses figures from a 2005 Pew Hispanic Center study that estimates there are 250,000 to 300,000 illegal immigrants in Virginia. The center estimates that Virginia's at least 109,000 undocumented households earns an average of $27,400 annually, resulting in at about $3 billion in income.
"Like all other workers in our state, they spend that money,'' Cassidy said. "And like most low-wage workers, they spend almost all of that money.''
Cassidy said the study accounted for about $4,000 each year that would be sent back to the immigrant's home country and not put back into the economy.
The study estimated that about half of the illegal immigrant workers paid income taxes, meaning they and their employers also contributed to Social Security and Medicare, benefits they are ineligible to receive.
The study was not enough to convince some anti-illegal immigrant legislators that undocumented aliens contribute to society.
"Most of them are here to take what they can, send it home and not assimilate and not do what immigrants for the last 200 years have done in this country by coming here and wanting to become Americans,'' said Republican Del. Jeffrey Frederick of Prince William, where the local government has taken strides to crack down on illegal immigration.
"They want to come here and take what they can and send it home and leave when they can -- take billions of dollars out of our economy and send it to Central and South America,'' he said.
Frederick authored at least five bills to counter illegal immigration.
Out of more than 100 bills filed in the House, measures succeeded that would prohibit illegal immigrants from attending public colleges and universities, deny bail for and report to federal authorities those in the country illegally who commit crimes, require businesses to lose their licenses if the owners are convicted of hiring illegal aliens, and require the governor to enter into an agreement with federal immigration officials to enforce illegal immigration laws.
The Senate has been less receptive to anti-illegal immigrant legislation.
Yeah, to the destruction of America
Surely they did a parallel study to calculate the cost of medical care, uninsured motorists, crime, etc.
Surely.
Note to VA taxpayers: Read it and weep.
Who are these people? Anyone can pull any figures out of their *&^. Why should we believe these stats?
Let’s look at this differently;
Juan & Maria, who is pregnant, sneak across the border. She immediately has a free $5K birthing experience followed by welfare and WIC benefits for the new little citizen she popped out.
Over the next serval years, Maria has 3-4 more of these free $5K birthing events. Juan and Maria both work using fed ITN#’s and while they pay SS witholding, they get $3K to $4K back every year in EIC payments.
Their 4 kids all recieve $10K per year each educations.........
I could go on and on, but trust me, they do not give more than they take.
Since half supposedly pay income taxes, they ALL should be allowed to stay? The net "gain" (loss) does not justify the "contributions".
So, how many do you employ?
Slave money.
In a single hospital (Danbury Hospital) in a single year (2006) in a single small state (CT), illegal aliens cost the hospital $12 million in unpaid bills.
There are 184 hospitals in the state of Virginia. If you account for median size, and then cut tghe estimate in half to be conservative, it still equals an estimated unpaid bills cost to the state of Virginia to approximately $1.1 billion per year, at MINIMUM.
My legwork shows socialism is alive and well in VA.
Well, isn’t this interesting.
The Commonwealth Institute shares the same phone number and P.O. Box as the Virginia Interfaith Center and Public Policy. I would post their IRS 990 filing but I’m not sure the link would work. The Commonwealth Institute does not file a 990 because they ARE the Virginia Interfaith Center and Public Policy.
Mr. Cassidy is an employee (lobbyist) for the Virginia Interfaith Center and Public Policy. Here’s the link:
http://vpap.org/lobby/details.cfm?key=INP000342376&orkey=ORP000244428&;
It is a religious organization that advocates for the disinfranchised and poor in Virginia.
Slavery may have worked out in ancient Egypt but for the United States it was some of the most expensive labor of all time. We are still paying for it and so will our children.
There are an estimated 12 million illegals in the U.S. at this time. Sooo...
400,000,000
----------- = 33 dollars per illegal contributed
12,000,000
Meanwhile, the latest figures indicate that illegals take up to $11 BILLION away per year. [1] There are also many more billions of losses in criminal conduct ranging from rape, murder, theft and increasingly identity theft. [2]
Judging by these numbers alone, whatever pittance the illegals put back into the economy is taken out many times over by their wanton disregard for our laws, our nation, and our people.
Sadly, McCain will ignore all this and instead reward these criminals with citizenship, thus assuring a still bigger invasion wave to come.
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