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Thursday, January 11, 2024
CA - THE STATE THAT HANDS ILLEGALS $50 BILLION YEARLY IN SOCIAL SERVICES - Gavin Newsom Wants to Raid California’s ‘Rainy Day’ Fund to Help Fill $38 Billion Deficit
THERE IS A REASON WHY MIDDLE AMERICA AND THE RICH ARE FLEEING THIS COLONY OF MEXICO!
The state of California is home to more illegal aliens than any other state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens lives in California, Pew reported.
Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.
Washington, D.C. (January 11, 2024) – Dr. Steven Camarota testified today before the Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, addressing the impact of illegal immigrants on public services. He presented new research findings, highlighting that illegal immigrants are a net fiscal drain – using more in services than they contribute in taxes. This is primarily attributed to their low average education levels, resulting in correspondingly low average incomes and tax payments. It also means a large share of illegal immigrants qualify for welfare programs, often receiving benefits on behalf of U.S.-born children. It is important to note that the fiscal drain they create is not due to laziness or fraud. Illegal immigrants have high rates of work, and they do pay some taxes, including income and payroll taxes.
“Government is largely funded by middle- and higher-income people, this is why cities worry so much about losing their middle-class tax base,” said Dr. Camarota, the Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research. “Allowing in large numbers of less-educated illegal immigrants comes with unavoidable costs for taxpayers.”
Illegal immigrants use more in services than they pay in taxes primarily because a large share have modest levels of education, resulting in relatively low average incomes and tax payments, along with significant use of means-tested programs and other government services.
Prior research indicates that 69 percent of adult illegal immigrants have no education beyond high school, compared to 35 percent of the U.S.-born.
Using the National Academies’ estimate of immigrants’ net fiscal impact by education level, we estimate that the lifetime fiscal drain (taxes paid minus costs) for each illegal immigrant is about $68,000.
Illegal immigrants make extensive use of welfare. Based on government data, we estimate that 59 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants use one or more major welfare programs, compared to 39 percent of households headed by the U.S.-born.
Based on their use rate of major welfare programs, we roughly estimate that illegal immigrants receive $42 billion in benefits, or about 4 percent of the total cost of the cash, Medicaid, food and housing programs examined in our study.
Illegal immigrants can receive welfare on behalf of U.S.-born children. Also, illegal immigrant children can receive school lunch/breakfast and WIC directly. A number of states provide Medicaid to some illegal immigrants, and a few provide SNAP. Several million illegal immigrants also have work authorization (e.g. DACA, TPS and some asylum applicants), allowing receipt of the EITC.
The high welfare use of illegal immigrant households is not explained by an unwillingness to work. In fact, 94 percent of illegal immigrant households have at least one worker, compared to only 73 percent of U.S.-born households.
In addition to consuming welfare, illegal immigration makes significant use of public education. Based on average costs per student, the estimated 4 million children of illegal immigrants in public schools created $68.1 billion in costs in 2019. The vast majority of these children are U.S.-born.
Use of emergency medical services and other care for the uninsured is another area where illegal immigrants create significant costs. Prior research indicates that illegal immigrants accounting for a little over one-fifth of the total uninsured population, creating costs of of roughly $7 billion annually.
Illegal immigrants do pay some taxes. We estimate that illegal immigrants in 2019 paid roughly $5.9 billion in federal income tax, $16.2 billion in Social Security tax and $3.8 billion in Medicaid taxes. However, as the net fiscal drain of $68,000 per person cited above indicates, these taxes are not nearly enough to cover the costs they create receive.
Gavin Newsom Wants to Raid California’s ‘Rainy Day’ Fund to Help Fill $38 Billion Deficit
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is proposing to dip into the state’s “rainy day” fund to help fill the hole that is the state’s $38 billion deficit — a stunning shortfall, given a surplus of nearly $100 billion that the Golden State had enjoyed just a year before.
As Breitbart News has noted, California received shocking news at the end of 2022 when a $98 billion surplus, partly fueled by President Joe Biden’s “rescue” plan, collapsed into a $25 billion deficit. Later projections predicted an even larger deficit.
On Wednesday, Newsom presented a budget that estimates a $38 billion deficit — which may only be half of the eventual amount.
As CalMatters.org notes, Newsom proposed spending cuts to some programs, such as state initiatives on climate change, and extra funds to help settle migrants that have arrived in California after crossing over the porous southern U.S. border.
But Newsom is also dipping into the state’s savings to prevent budget cuts in areas such as education. EdSource reported:
Gov. Gavin Newsom would protect schools and community colleges from the brunt of an $11.3 billion projected drop in state revenue for education, under a proposed 2024-25 state budget he released on Wednesday. The budget calls for covering all current levels of funding and existing commitments for new and expanded programs, plus a less than 1% cost-of-living increase for next year.
The three-year decline in revenue, both for schools and the overall $38.7 billion in the state general fund, is $30 billion less than the Legislative Analyst’s Office had projected a month ago, easing the burden of balancing the budget and avoiding the possibility of drastic budget cuts or late payments — at least for community colleges and TK-12.
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Newsom would protect schools and community colleges by withdrawing about $7 billion from the $10.8 billion TK-14 rainy day fund to cover the current year’s shortfall and meet the minimum obligation in 2024-25. The state would not seek reimbursement for what turned out to be funding above the minimum Proposition 98 statutory obligation for the prior two years.
Newsom’s predecessor, Gov. Jerry Brown (D), created the “rainy day fund,” though it did not solve California’s budget problems.
One driver of deficits is the state’s seemingly endless enthusiasm for providing heath care to illegal aliens. As of this year, the state is providing full benefits under Medi-Cal, the California version of Medicaid, to all residents, regardless of immigration status.
At the time Obamacare was passed, expanding Medicaid, Republican fears that it would benefit illegal aliens were dismissed.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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