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January 26, 2006
Table 1:
|
Federal
Taxes and Expenditures per Illegal Alien
Household, 2002 |
|
Tax Payments |
|
|
Social Security |
$1,687 |
|
Income tax |
$1,371 |
|
Excise and other taxes |
$541 |
|
Medicare |
$446 |
|
Unemployment |
$83 |
|
Corporate income tax |
$84 |
|
Total Tax Payments |
$4,212 |
|
Expenditures |
|
|
Federal prisons,
courts, INS |
$760 |
|
Medicaid |
$658 |
|
Treatment for uninsured |
$591 |
|
Food assistance |
$499 |
|
Federal Aid to
Education |
$371 |
|
Social Security &
Medicare |
$289 |
|
Welfare |
$222 |
|
Other transfer payments
|
$442 |
|
All Other Expenditures |
$3,115 |
|
Total Expenditures |
$6,949 |
|
Deficit (Taxes less
expenditures) |
$-2,736 |
|
Source: Steven
A. Camarota, “The
High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal
Immigration and the Federal Budget,”
CIS, August 2004. Table 2.
a. Earned
Income Tax Credit, Additional Child Tax
Credit, unemployment, federal disability,
higher education assistance, Stafford
Student Loans, means-tested programs for
refugees. Illegals are assumed to be
receiving no federal disability or
means-tested programs for refugees.
b. Includes
those federal expenditures not accounted for
in table, such as infrastructure
maintenance and criminal justice. |
Table 2:
|
State and
Local Taxes and Expenditures per Immigrant
Household: California
(2002 dollars) |
|
Tax Payments |
|
|
Income tax |
$1,181 |
|
Property tax |
$1,065 |
|
Sales tax |
$629 |
|
All other |
$5,645 |
|
Total Payments |
$8,521 |
|
Expenditures |
|
|
K-12 education |
$4,501 |
|
Transfers to households |
$1,627 |
|
All other |
$6,216 |
|
Total Expenditures |
$12,344 |
|
Fiscal Deficit (Taxes less spending) |
$-3,823 |
|
Source:
National Research Council,
The New Americans: Economic,
Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of
Immigration, 1997. Table
6.3. |
Edwin S. Rubenstein (email
him) is President of
ESR Research Economic Consultants in Indianapolis. |
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