Posted on 09/26/2014 11:22:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Is this really enriching anybody besides the Muslim settlers?
A village of just 1,000 residents in Switzerland has been forced to raise taxes because an African refugee and her seven children cost the local authority $65,000 in benefits every month.
Hagenbuch, in the Swiss canton of Zurich, is understood to be spending close to a third of its total annual budget on the family after they arrived from Eritrea in East Africa three years ago.
The Eritrean woman and her family arrived in Hagenbuch three years ago in possession of a visa allowing her to stay in Switzerland for five years, with the option to extend her stay beyond that date.
Solely to cover the cost of the family’s massive benefits bill, the local authority is now planning to raise taxes in the village by a shocking five per cent .
When the woman and her family arrived in Hagenbuch three years ago, the municipal government immediately agreed to cover the full cost of their rent and $2780 a month in living expenses.
A short time later the woman sought further financial help, claiming she had become overwhelmed by family commitments and was now struggling to look after all seven of her children.
This resulted in four of them being sent to an orphanage – with the local authority paying out $9,800 for each child every month – a total cost of$40,000.
On top of this there are also the costs of helping the woman pay her cooking and cleaning bills – plus rolling entertainment expenses, such as paying the entry fee for all eight family members at the zoo.
As well as straight handouts, the family also reportedly cost the local authority thousands more every month by tying up social workers and carers for six hours a day, six days a week.
And that’s just one family of Eritrean settlers. There are plenty of others.
The vast majority of Eritreans in Switzerland live on welfare… 87 percent of working-recognized refugees with residence permits do not work. Only one in nine Eritreans works for a living. From those granted provisional refugee status, the employment rate is similarly low: only 24 percent of Eritreans have a job.
Keep multiplying and imagine what kind of tax burden this will really mean.
they breed like rabbits
Europe needs to STOP all African and Middle eastern ‘migration’. Or they will lose Europe forever .
” But they are stimulating the ecomomy just like Jeb says that illegals will here.
And they will ‘pay taxes’ too... “
They never earn enough to pay taxes. Most illegals in America
actually get money back, if they pay a few hundred in taxes.
I lived in Knonau, in the same Canton but on the South, near Zug. I had moved once after taking a job in Baden and temporarily living near there while finding a place nearer one of the international schools. Went through an amazing bureaucratic review to do that move from one Canton to another, had to get clearances from the police and other authorities to show that I hadn’t had any unpaid debts, had not been unemployed, etc.... The Swiss can reject your move even if you have a willing landlord. Problem is that once you are in place, like these people, hard to do anything.
“On top of this there are also the costs of helping the woman pay her cooking and cleaning bills – plus rolling entertainment expenses, such as paying the entry fee for all eight family members at the zoo.”
WTH? This village is NUTS!
$65,000 a MONTH?????
Pure insanity
When I dreamed up my idealized city-state, there was no welfare system, but there was an organization that collected a tiny fee from each airline ticket that would provide a trip home for stranded travellers. Although they might have to wait a bit at a hostel first.
Wait until she brings over the rest of her relatives.
Exactly.
When the woman and her family arrived... ...the municipal government immediately agreed to cover the full cost of their rent and $2780 a month in living expenses.
So what's the problem? The government is only doing what they said they'd do. "Why don't you leave your crappy country and come live in our awesome country and we'll pay for everything!" Who can blame these immigrants for taking the Swiss up on such a generous offer?
Here’s a question — are they allowed to work or not?
As far as I know, you don't have to earn a single dime in taxable income to qualify for a child tax credit. And illegals have no problem claiming 24 children knowing the chances of an audit are slim to none.
We pay out billions a year in fraudulent child tax credits.
9.8K/month for a kid in an orphanage? That’s insane!
That must be why libs keep raising the alcohol,sales and cigarette taxes, and want legal taxed gambling and pot.
We give the poor $$$ and they spend it, some of which goes to the sales taxes.
That's Keynes economics.
Its the spenders who are the job creators, so that makes amnesty a job creation policy, just ask Jeb and Rubio.
I don't know. I suspect many of them are given work visas to do the menial jobs that the Swiss don't want to do yet the article goes on to say that 87% of these visa holders don't work.
” Its the spenders who are the job creators, so that makes amnesty a job creation policy, just ask Jeb and Rubio. “
LOL!!
Untrue. My sister (a SAHM) had no income last year due to a divorce. Nothing to report = nothing to file = no child tax credit. Since I had paid mortgage & necessities, I was able to claim her and the kids with me as head of household.
” As far as I know, you don’t have to earn a single dime in taxable income to qualify for a child tax credit. And illegals have no problem claiming 24 children knowing the chances of an audit are slim to none.
We pay out billions a year in fraudulent child tax credits. “
A lot of illegals have multiple ID’s. They need them, so they can afford to drive drive a Cadillac Escalade.
Why work when everything is “free”?
Well Said!!!
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