April 13, 2006

National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein

Justice now! But not for native-born taxpayers

Federal Taxes and Expenditures per Illegal Alien Household, 2006
Tax Payments
Social Security	$1,886
Income tax	$1,533
Excise and other taxes	$605
Medicare	$499
Unemployment	$93
Corporate income tax	$94
Total Tax Payments	$4,708
Expenditures
Federal prisons, courts, INS	$850
Medicaid	$735
Treatment for uninsured	$661
Food assistance	$558
Federal Aid to Education	$415
Social Security & Medicare	$323
Welfare	$248
Other transfer payments	$494
All Other Expenditures	$3,483
Total Expenditures	$7,769
Deficit (Taxes less benefits)	($3,061)
Note: CPI inflation used to update original (2002) figures in CIS report. 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. Source: Steven A. Camarota, “The High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget,” CIS, August 2004. Table 2.

State and Local Taxes and Expenditures per Immigrant Household: California (2006 dollars)
Tax Payments
Income tax	$1,320
Property tax	$1,191
Sales tax	$703
All other	$6,312
Total Tax Payments	$9,526
Expenditures
K-12 education	$5,033
Transfers to households	$1,819
All other	$6,950
Total Expenditures	$13,802
Fiscal Deficit (Taxes less spending)	($4,276)
Note: Author used CPI to inflate original (1996) figures in NRC report. Source: National Research Council, The New Americans,: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration, 1997. Table 6.3.

Tax Revenues Lost From Displacement of U.S.-Born Workers by Foreign-born Workers ($ Billions)
	Total Revenues	Revenue Loss	Percentage Loss
Federal Tax Revenues (2004)
Individual Income Taxes	$809.0	$37.2	-4.6%
Social Security Taxes	733.4	$33.7	-4.6%
Excise Taxes	69.9	$3.2	-4.6%
Sub-total-Federal	$1,612.3	$74.2	-4.6%
State and Local Tax Revenues (2002)
Individual Income Taxes	$202.8	$9.3	-4.6%
Sales and use taxes	$324.0	$14.9	-4.6%
Sub-total-State and Local	$526.8	$24.2	-4.6%
TOTAL-Fed., State, Local	$2,139.1	$98.4	-4.6%
Source: Federal Revenues (2004): OMB; State and Local Tax Revenues (2002): Tax Foundation. Revenue loss estimates calculated by author.

Edwin S. Rubenstein (email him) is President of ESR Research Economic Consultants in Indianapolis.