Wednesday, September 4, 2019

TED NOEL - THE "AMERICAN DREAM" BEATS THE SOCIALIST DREAM EVERY TIME.... BUT THERE IS NO "AMERICAN DREAM IN AMERICA! WE NEED TO GET REAL ON THAT!

The American Dream beats the Socialist Dream every time

As we approach yet another election, we find ourselves listening to a host of voices trying to get our attention.  We tune most of them out as noise.  Even though my wife and I are strong Trump-supporters (in most areas), we've stopped watching his rallies.  We've heard the message and don't need to hear it again.
There are a significant number of potential voters who are too busy to tune in or are baffled by the conflicting claims that saturate the news channels.  They're too tired or uninterested to read about "The Unchanging Principles of Conservatism Defined."  They want a quick answer without all the fluff.  Can we inject clarity into this babble?
In a sound-bite world, truth needs to be crystallized.  When Left and right both say they want to promote "the American Dream," it's obvious that they aren't talking about the same thing.  So let's condense it.

BLOG: THE "AMERICAN DREAM WAS RIPPED OFF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, TORN TO SHREDS AND HANDED TO ILLEGALS TO BUY THEIR ILLEGAL VOTES!

JUST GO TO MEXIFORNIA TO SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE!

The American Dream is the idea that "You can bust your butt to make a better life, and not have it stolen by anyone, not even the government."
The historical truth of this is self-evident.  People braved treacherous ocean crossings in barely seaworthy ships so they could scratch out an existence in a new land threatened by multitudes of unknown dangers.  This continued throughout our western expansion.  Now that we have subdued the physical threats faced by our pioneers, our uninformed progeny regard simple differences of opinion as worthy of the same response as marauding Apaches.  They march for "free everything" in the name of "socialism," while completely misunderstanding the following:
The Socialist Dream is the idea that the government should steal the work of those who busted their butts to give it to those who won't get off their own.
These sound bites are short enough for anyone who works for a living to comprehend them, even in the middle of the noise of life.  But we must go a bit farther.  When the Left calls the president a "Nazi," we should remind them that "Nazi" is short for "National Socialist."  When leftists scream for socialism, theyare the Nazis.  And yes, Hitler's economics were socialist, and American Democrats were cheerleaders for Hitler.  Even John F. Kennedy was a fan of Hitler prior to World War II.
We don't expect the mind-numbed robots of the Left to hear, much less process these thoughts.  What we are trying to do is to create clarity in the minds of those who are being battered by competing claims.  The Left uses words for impact, not information.  Thus, "Nazi," "racist," "authoritarian," and other slanderous epithets are merely evil-sounding noise intended to scare the hearer.
Careful, rational presentations, while accurate, are useless against the shouting.  All we can do is wait for the Left to take a breath and then hit hard with a truth so clear and so short that it is complete and in the hearer's mind before the Left can shout against it.
It has been said that when all you have is name-calling, you've lost the argument.  While that may be true, we aren't in a debate.  We are competing for a narrow bandwidth window.  Only a message narrowly tailored to that is useful.


Creative Destruction Versus Government Fixes

Macquarie strategist Viktor Shvets explains overcapacity, debt, and government intervention
March 30, 2017 Updated: March 31, 2017
Despite the temporary injection of confidence in the American economy brought about by the election of President Donald Trump, major structural problems continue to lurk beneath the surface. These trends, decades in the making, are so entrenched and intractable that even Trump’s boldest plans may not be able to resolve them.
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For many Americans, this is the economy: rising prices for necessities, schooling, and health care; high competition for jobs that don’t pay much; negative interest rates; and the accumulation of increasing influence and power by financial institutions.
It’s no wonder so many feel disenfranchised and upset. The system of capitalism is usually given the blame for income inequality; last year, many identified with Bernie Sanders, a self-described socialist who promised that the government would be able to fix (almost) everything.
The real picture is more nuanced, according to Macquarie Group global strategist Viktor Shvets, who does not propose any easy solutions to the most difficult problems facing the United States and the world. Shvets does note, however, that under a genuine capitalist economy, many of the present imbalances would likely not have become as entrenched in the first place.
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Epoch Times: Why are people so unhappy with the economic system right now?
Viktor Shvets: People want to be respected. People want to feel important. They want to feel that they are valuable contributors and useful members of society. But increasingly, most people feel that their contribution is no longer important, relevant, or valued.
We have too much overcapacity and too little labor productivity. The No. 1 problem is technology itself, which is depressing labor productivity and changing how labor inputs are valued. It’s altering how we invest, and it globalizes us much more than we’d like.
But the other problem is what we’ve created for ourselves, and that is global over-financialization and overleveraging, which is a direct consequence of the societal desire for growth, despite stagnating productivity.
All of this leads to stagnating incomes and, perhaps more importantly, disintegration of conventional labor markets and traditional professions and career paths, which feeds into questions like “What do you think of yourself and your contribution?” and “How valuable are you, and how important are you to your employer?” The younger generations, particularly millennials or anybody born from the mid-1970s onward, really feel that they probably got a raw bargain.
So you get the conflict between people’s self-perception—what they would like to be—and the reality of where they actually are. Whenever societies and economies go through these periods, people feel the system doesn’t work for them. And it doesn’t.
Epoch Times: However, in real capitalism, overcapacity and too much debt could have been prevented by periodic cleanups—what Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter called “creative destruction.”
Mr. Shvets: Theoretically, what should have happened if we had a relatively free economy, is that the only role of government would be to ensure that monopolies were not created, that law and order were maintained, and that basic infrastructure needs were taken care of.
An empty storefont at 224 W. 4th Street in the West Village, New York, on Sept. 15, 2016. (Samira Bouaou/Epoch Times)
An empty storefont at 224 W. 4th Street in the West Village, New York, on Sept. 15, 2016. (Samira Bouaou/Epoch Times)
Beyond that, the Austrian school of economics would have allowed businesses and industries to fail and capital to be allocated however the private sector deemed it appropriate. In other words, there would be a purging of excesses, businesses, and industries.
You could have eliminated the overleveraging and associated overcapacity—which, by the way, is now one of the factors depressing productivity—and that would have meant watching banks fail and people losing their deposits, so that the next time around, they would be more careful where they put their money.
The problem is that, since the early 1930s, nobody ever tried to do this because the political and social impact of that scenario would have been devastating.
Epoch Times: So now people look more and more to the government to solve these problems?
Mr. Shvets: Over the last decade, the pendulum has been swinging toward the state and public sectors being more and more proactive. Whether it’s allocation of capital or forcing corporates to invest or not invest in certain areas, the state is becoming much more dominant.
A trader works on the floor before the closing bell of the Dow Jones at the New York Stock Exchange on March 21, 2017. (BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP/Getty Images)
A trader works on the floor before the closing bell of the Dow Jones at the New York Stock Exchange on March 21, 2017. (BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP/Getty Images)
The consensus narrative today is that state-sponsored infrastructure spending is a “good thing,” and that government spending, in general, is something to encourage. Who would have thought in the 1980s and 1990s that people today would be applauding government and infrastructure spending? But that’s exactly what’s happening now. People say, “Look, there’s an alternative.”
Of course, a conventional economist would argue that all we need to do is increase productivity. And they will argue that what is missing from the productivity puzzle is investment—nonresidential, fixed-asset investment.
If we can just invest more money, people become more productive. And higher productivity will feed into higher wages while containing inflation. And that would then feed into higher consumption and growth rates.
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The problem with that argument is that there are reasons for why corporates have not been investing for decades, and those reasons today are just as valid as they were decades ago.
Also, most of such investments look likely to be steered, or underwritten, by the public sector. The government is trying to induce the private sector to invest in areas where it never would have invested if left to its own devices. That’s hardly a recipe for productivity enhancement.
To my mind, the traditional argument that all you need is higher investment to kick-start the productivity cycle is faulty.
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Epoch Times: In fact, you argue we have too much capital and overcapacity.
Mr. Shvets: Most of the new activities are capital light. You don’t need much capital. And most new private-sector activities today have an almost unlimited scale.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, scalability was very important, and we had a problem with a lack of capital, and most fields were very capital-intensive. We needed lots of labor inputs. We needed to put in more hours. In other words, labor needed to be productively married to machinery and the management’s task was to “sweat labor inputs.”
Robots assemble a Tesla Model S at their factory in Fremont, Calif., on June 22, 2012.  (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
Robots assemble a Tesla Model S at their factory in Fremont, Calif., on June 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
In the new world of the 21st century, we have plenty of capital, and indeed one could argue that we are drowning in capital while most operations are no longer capital intensive and hours worked are no longer the driver of productivity. There is no reason for corporates to increase investment in traditional infrastructure and factories because that’s not what’s going to drive their businesses forward.
There is a need to raise R&D investment, particularly the “R” portion. There is a need to increase investment in automation and intellectual properties while reducing our energy and biological footprint.
There is also a need to maintain core infrastructure so that there are no accidents, and diseases do not spread. But beyond that, in my view, there is very little physical investment required in most developed markets, and even a large portion of emerging markets.
So it’s a problem that we have so much capital floating around, but it can’t find a home. And because it can’t find a home, it’s just staying in financial institutions, because there’s nowhere else for it to go. It therefore gets allocated into real estate and financial speculation.
Epoch Times: And we have a lot of debt. How do we get rid of that?
Mr. Shvets: The debt that’s been incurred would either have to be whittled down through some form of inflation, which gets harder and harder to generate when you have technology and overleveraging, or it would have to be bought up by central banks. A lot of the debt that has been generated was never meant to be repaid.
Car loans ensure that people who couldn’t afford a car can get one. I don’t see those loans ever being repaid. Student loans in the United States are a consumption support mechanism by the U.S. government. That’s never going to get repaid.
But that’s fine, as long as the ball keeps rolling. As long as the new debt is being pumped in, it’s okay. It’s like surfing—you have to keep standing to stay on the wave, or you’ll fall.
Are people prepared for the consequences of debt default? Of course not. Nobody is prepared to lose their deposits. Nobody wants to lose their jobs. Nobody wants a deflationary bust.


Report: California’s Middle-Class Wages Rise by 1 Percent in 40 Years


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3 Sep 2019172
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Middle-class wages in progressive California have risen by 1 percent in the last 40 years, says a study by the establishment California Budget and Policy Center.

“Earnings for California’s workers at the low end and middle of the wage scale have generally declined or stagnated for decades,” says the report, titled “California’s Workers Are Increasingly Locked Out of the State’s Prosperity.” The report continued:
In 2018, the median hourly earnings for workers ages 25 to 64 was $21.79, just 1% higher than in 1979, after adjusting for inflation ($21.50, in 2018 dollars) (Figure 1). Inflation-adjusted hourly earnings for low-wage workers, those at the 10th percentile, increased only slightly more, by 4%, from $10.71 in 1979 to $11.12 in 2018.
The report admits that the state’s progressive economy is delivering more to investors and less to wage-earners. “Since 2001, the share of state private-sector [annual new income] that has gone to worker compensation has fallen by 5.6 percentage points — from 52.9% to 47.3%.”
In 2016, California’s Gross Domestic Product was $2.6 trillion, so the 5.6 percent drop shifted $146 billion away from wages. That is roughly $3,625 per person in 2016.
The report notes that wages finally exceeded 1979 levels around 2017, and it splits the credit between the Democrats’ minimum-wage boosts and President Donald Trump’s go-go economy.
The 40 years of flat wages are partly hidden by a wave of new products and services. They include almost-free entertainment and information on the Internet, cheap imported coffee in supermarkets, and reliable, low-pollution autos in garages.
But the impact of California’s flat wages is made worse by California’s rising housing costs, the report says, even though it also ignores the rent-spiking impact of the establishment’s pro-immigration policies:
 In just the last decade alone, the increase in the typical household’s rent far outpaced the rise in the typical full-time worker’s annual earnings, suggesting that working families and individuals are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet. In fact, the basic cost of living in many parts of the state is more than many single individuals or families can expect to earn, even if all adults are working full-time.
Specifically, inflation-adjusted median household rent rose by 16% between 2006 and 2017, while inflation-adjusted median annual earnings for individuals working at least 35 hours per week and 50 weeks per year rose by just 2%, according to a Budget Center analysis of US Census Bureau, American Community Survey data.
The wage and housing problems are made worse — especially for families — by the loss of employment benefits as companies and investors spike stock prices by cutting costs. The report says:
Many workers are being paid little more today than workers were in 1979 even as worker productivity has risen. Fewer employees have access to retirement plans sponsored by their employers, leaving individual workers on their own to stretch limited dollars and resources to plan how they’ll spend their later years affording the high cost of living and health care in California. And as union representation has declined, most workers today cannot negotiate collectively for better working conditions, higher pay, and benefits, such as retirement and health care, like their parents and grandparents did. On top of all this, workers who take on contingent and independent work (often referred to as “gig work”), which in many cases appears to be motivated by the need to supplement their primary job or fill gaps in their employment, are rarely granted the same rights and legal protections as traditional employees.
The center’s report tries to blame the four-decade stretch of flat wages on the declining clout of unions. But unions’ decline was impacted by the bipartisan elites’ policy of mass-migration and imposed diversity.
In 2018, Breitbart reported how Progressives for Immigration Reform interviewed Blaine Taylor, a union carpenter, about the economic impact of migration:
TAYLOR: If I hired a framer to do a small addition [in 1988], his wage would have been $45 an hour. That was the minimum for a framing contractor, a good carpenter. For a helper, it was about $25 an hour, for a master who could run a complete job, it was about $45 an hour. That was the going wage for plumbers as well. His helpers typically got $25 an hour.
Now, the average wage in Los Angeles for construction workers is less than $11 an hour. They can’t go lower than the minimum wage. And much of that, if they’re not being paid by the hour at less than $11 an hour, they’re being paid per piece — per piece of plywood that’s installed, per piece of drywall that’s installed. Now, the subcontractor can circumvent paying them as an hourly wage and are now being paid by 1099, which means that no taxes are being taken out. [Emphasis added]
Diversity also damaged the unions by shredding California’s civic solidarity. In 2007, the progressive Southern Poverty Law Center posted a report with the title “Latino Gang Members in Southern California are Terrorizing and Killing Blacks.” In the same year, an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times described another murder by Latino gangs as “a manifestation of an increasingly common trend: Latino ethnic cleansing of African Americans from multiracial neighborhoods.”
The center’s board members include the executive director of the state’s SEIU union, a professor from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the research director at the “Program for Environmental and Regional Equity” at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Outside California, President Donald Trump’s low-immigration policies are pressuring employers to raise Americans’ wages in a hot economy. The Wall Street Journal reportedAugust 29:
Overall, median weekly earnings rose 5% from the fourth quarter of 2017 to the same quarter in 2018, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For workers between the ages of 25 and 34, that increase was 7.6%.


The New York Times laments that reduced immigration does force wages upwards and also does force companies to buy labor-saving, wage-boosting machinery. Instead, NYT prioritizes "ideas about America’s identity and culture.” http://bit.ly/2Zp2u2J 

NYT Admits Fewer Immigrants Means Higher Wages, More Labor-Saving Machines



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THE INVITED INVADING HORDES: IT’S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED!
"In the decade following the financial crisis of 2007-2008, the capitalist class has delivered powerful blows to the social position of the working class. As a result, the working class in the US, the world’s “richest country,” faces levels of economic hardship not seen since the 1930s."

"Inequality has reached unprecedented levels: the wealth of America’s three richest people now equals the net worth of the poorest half of the US population."


THE (REALITY) OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY:

Anti-Semitic, open borders for cheaper labor and funded by criminal banksters… and these pols are making vast fortunes sucking the blood of America!


We must not let them cheat their way to power over the rest of us.  Their ongoing vote fraud must be stopped and the Democrats need to take a look at themselves and at what they have become. It's not a pretty picture.  What they have become threatens to destroy the greatest nation on the planet and they are doing it on purpose.  They have nothing but contempt for the US as founded and for those of us who love this country. PATRICIA McCARTHY – AMERICAN THINKER

“Then we suffered the rattling election of Barack Obama, whose active membership in a white-, Jewish-, and America-hating church was well known to the electorate.  His close personal relationship with the likes of his adored Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan was no secret.  Obama was open about his goals.  He told us he was out to "fundamentally transform America" and the world.”  ALAN BERGSTEIN

“There is a deep racist and anti-Semitic disease in the leadership of the Democrats. As Senator Cory Booker brings his hatred for the Jewish State to the Senate, he should be asked whether he agrees with his hero, “The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist we must take a lesson from Hitler”. DANIEL GREENFIELD

OBAMANOMICS TO SERVE BANKSTERS 

AND GLOBAL BILLIONAIRES

"One of the premier institutions of big business, JP Morgan Chase, issued an internal report on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the 2008 crash, which warned that another “great liquidity crisis” was possible, and that a government bailout on the scale of that effected by Bush and Obama will produce social unrest, “in light of the potential impact of central bank actions in driving inequality between asset owners and labor."  

 

The Left Has a $500 Million Dark Money ‘ATM Machine’ Called Arabella



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The following article is sponsored by Capital Research Center.
A largely unknown, massively funded strategy company pushing the interests of wealthy leftist donors has been quietly behind a hydra-like dark money network of pop-up groups designed to look like grassroots activist organizations. These front groups push everything from opposition to President Trump’s proposed border wall to support for Obamacare to gun control to government control of the Internet to pro-abortion activism and other leftwing causes.
The secretive Arabella Advisors may be one of the most impactful and sophisticated leftist funding outfits that you never heard of, a centralized hub that runs nonprofit arms that in turn have spawned a nexus of hundreds of front organizations outwardly designed to appear grassroots but that evidence the common theme of more government control in the lives of Americans.
Arabella’s vast network was unmasked in an extensive exposé by conservative watchdog Capital Research Center, which documents the shadowy system developed by, housed in, and staffed by the for-profit, privately held Arabella Advisors.
The Arabella firm in turn manages four nonprofits: the New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Windward Fund, and Hopewell Fund. It is these nonprofit entities that play host to hundreds of groups and projects that promote interests and political movements strategically deployed in an ongoing campaign to nudge the country to the left.
Arabella’s nonprofits spent a combined $1.16 billion from 2013-2017 alone with the aim of advancing “the political policies desired by wealthy left-wing interests through hundreds of ‘front’ groups,” according to the report. “And those interests pay well: the network’s revenues grew by an incredible 392 percent over that same period.”
“Together, these groups form an interlocking network of ‘dark money’ pop-up groups and other fiscally sponsored projects, all afloat in a half-billion-dollar ocean of cash,” states the report. “The real puppeteer, though, is Arabella Advisors, which has managed to largely conceal its role in coordinating so much of the professional Left’s infrastructure under a mask of ‘philanthropy.’”
A specialty of the Arabella network seems to be the quick turnover of hundreds of “front” groups, especially websites timed to impact current events and designed to look like “grassroots” Astroturf organizations but that actually function as part of an orchestrated movement to advance the political interests of hidden leftist donors.
“At a glance, these groups — such as Save My Care and Protect Our Care — appeared to be impassioned examples of citizen activists defending ObamaCare,” according to the report. “In reality, neither ‘not-for-profit’ advocacy group appears to have paid staff, held board meetings, or even owned so much as a pen.”
In one case, an organization calling itself Demand Justice, founded by former members of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, quickly thrust itself into the center of opposition to Trump’s Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh.
Even before Trump announced Kavanaugh as his nominee, Demand Justice committed to spending about $5 million to oppose the eventual pick. As soon as Kavanaugh’s name was selected, the organization immediately deployed an anti-Kavanaugh website and helped lead news making national activism during the confirmation hearings.
Yet what the news media missed is that Demand Justice is fiscally sponsored by the Sixteen Thirty Fund, one of Arabella’s nonprofits, as the Capital Research Center report reveals.
The report shows similar setups have spawned organizations that serve as the backbone of the Obamacare support network, promote gun control, support pro-abortion activism, champion open border policies, and even advocate for a centralized government role on the Internet.
Arabella nonprofits also evidence close financial workings with initiatives for the Democracy Alliance, another network of highly influential donors, including billionaire George Soros. Democracy Alliance itself coordinates funding to even more leftist outfits.
Arabella Advisors was founded by Eric Kessler, whose bio on the firm’s website identifieshim as “a serial entrepreneur who has started, led, and advised organizations pursuing social change across the country and around the globe.”
Curiously missing from his official bio, but documented in the Capital Research Center report, is the detail that Kessler served as a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, an arm of the controversial Clinton Foundation.
The report concludes by asking, “Given that many of the groups managed by Arabella frequently call for transparency in the funding of campaigns and policy advocacy, they may first consider voluntarily disclosing their own funding sources. Why shouldn’t transparency begin at home?”
Read the full Arabella report here.



PAUL BEDARD - THE STAGGERING COST OF MEXICO'S OCCUPATION AND LOOTING - Should we be helping our own instead?


Record $135 billion a year for illegal immigration, average $8,075 each, $25,000 in NY

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/record-135-billion-a-year-for-illegal-immigration-average-8075-each-25000-in-ny/article/2635757

 

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The swelling population of illegal immigrants and their kids is costing American taxpayers $135 billion a year, the highest ever, driven by free medical care, education and a huge law enforcement bill, according to the the most authoritative report on the issue yet.
And despite claims from pro-illegal immigration advocates that the aliens pay significant off-setting taxes back to federal, state and local treasuries, the Federation for American Immigration Reform report tallied just $19 billion, making the final hit to taxpayers about $116 billion.
State and local governments are getting ravaged by the costs, at over $88 billion. The federal government, by comparison, is getting off easy at $45 billion in costs for illegals.
President Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and conservatives in Congress are moving aggressively to deal with illegals, especially those with long criminal records. But their effort is being fought by courts and some 300 so-called "sanctuary communities" that refuse to work with federal law enforcement.
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The added burden on taxpayers and the unfairness to those who have applied to come into the United States through legal channels is also driving the administration's immigration crackdown.
The report, titled "The Fiscal Burden Of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers," is the most comprehensive cost tally from FAIR. It said that the costs have jumped about $3 billion in four years and will continue to surge unless illegal immigration is stopped. It was provided in advance exclusively to Secrets.
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"Clearly, the cost of doing nothing to stop illegal immigration is far too high," said FAIR Executive Director Dan Stein. "President Trump has laid out a comprehensive strategy to regain control of illegal immigration and bring down these costs," said Stein. "Building the wall, enhancing interior enforcement and mandating national E-Verify will go a long way in bringing these ridiculously high costs under control," he added.
Over 68 often shocking pages, FAIR documents the average $8,075 in state, local and federal spending for each of the of 12.5 million illegal immigrants and their 4.2 million citizen children.
Broadly, the costs include $29 billion in medical care, $23 billion for law enforcement, $9 billion in welfare, $46 billion for education.
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Just consider the cost of teaching an illegal alien child who doesn't speak English. FAIR estimates an average cost of over $12,000 a year, and that can reach $25,000 in New York. Add to that welfare, health care, school lunches, and the per student price soars.
In state costs alone, California leads the list at $23 billion per year, followed by Texas at $11 billion, and New York at $7.4 billion.
And it also documents the taxes paid and how they don't come close to offsetting the costs. What's more, FAIR noted that 35 percent of the illegal population operate in an underground economy hidden from tax collectors. And worse, employers hire illegals and either pay them cheaply or under the table.
"The United States recoups only about 14 percent of the amount expended annually on illegal aliens. If the same jobs held by illegal aliens were filled by legal workers, at the prevailing market wage, it may safely be presumed that federal, state and local governments would receive higher tax payments," said FAIR.
Key findings pulled from the report:
  • The staggering total costs of illegal immigrants and their children outweigh the taxes paid to federal and state governments by a ratio of roughly 7 to 1, with costs at nearly $135 billion compared to tax revenues at nearly $19 billion.
  • The nearly $135 billion paid out by federal and state and local taxpayers to cover the cost of the presence of 12.5 million illegal aliens and their 4.2 million citizen children amounts to approximately $8,075 per illegal alien and citizen child prior to taxes paid, or $6,940 per person after taxes are paid.
  • On the federal level, medical ($17.14 billion) is by far the highest cost, with law enforcement coming second ($13.15 billion) and general government services ($8 billion) third.
  • At the state and local level, education ($44.4 billion) was by far the largest expense, followed by general public services ($18.5 billion) and medical ($12.1 billion).
  • The top three states based on total cost to state taxpayers for illegal immigrants and their children: California ($23 billion); Texas ($10.9 billion), and New York ($7.5 billion).
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com






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