Are illegal immigrant laborers putting money into the pot just like the rest of us? That's what a number of pundits on the left have claimed, usually with a figure in the range of $10-12 billion a year.
PolitiFact rated the statement "Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year" from María Teresa Kumar of "Vote Latina" true - even though the "$12 billion" figure was based off of payroll taxes, half of which is paid by the employer.
So there appears to be some truth to the claim, but first let's answer the lingering question of how the heck illegal immigrants are paying taxes in the first place.
Just for the sake of a thought experiment, if we were to replace the entire labor force with illegal immigrants, and have them pay all their state and local taxes to the feds, the Federal government would've collected approximately $240 billion in tax revenue in 2017, as opposed to the $3.3 trillion that the Federal government actually collected in 2017.
Because illegals displace legal American employment, illegal immigrants impose a $30 billion annual cost in lost tax revenue.
Because of pressure on wages, illegal immigrants are costing American workers $118 billion annually in lost wages.
Health care costs for illegal immigrants alone total nearly $20 billion, or almost double what they pay in taxes, according to American Enterprise Institute scholar Chris Conover.
https://www.bongino.com/do-illegal-immigrants-really-pay-10-billion-a-year-in-taxes/
PolitiFact rated the statement "Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year" from María Teresa Kumar of "Vote Latina" true - even though the "$12 billion" figure was based off of payroll taxes, half of which is paid by the employer.
So there appears to be some truth to the claim, but first let's answer the lingering question of how the heck illegal immigrants are paying taxes in the first place.
Just for the sake of a thought experiment, if we were to replace the entire labor force with illegal immigrants, and have them pay all their state and local taxes to the feds, the Federal government would've collected approximately $240 billion in tax revenue in 2017, as opposed to the $3.3 trillion that the Federal government actually collected in 2017.
Because illegals displace legal American employment, illegal immigrants impose a $30 billion annual cost in lost tax revenue.
Because of pressure on wages, illegal immigrants are costing American workers $118 billion annually in lost wages.
Health care costs for illegal immigrants alone total nearly $20 billion, or almost double what they pay in taxes, according to American Enterprise Institute scholar Chris Conover.
https://www.bongino.com/do-illegal-immigrants-really-pay-10-billion-a-year-in-taxes/
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