Not an ounce of honesty and wrapped up in the flag
And please post some of these non partisan studies I would like links to every one or the ones ya got
I lthought the one from the general accounting office from a few years back was pretty spot on
You aren't paying anyone to be your push button monkey. I know of no GAO study; however the non-partisan
Congressional Budget Office did a study wherein they made the conclusion that undocumented foreigners pay as much in taxes as they receive in benefits. It's going to be a waste of time to prove this point to you.
Instead of playing politics with you, I'm
giving you your
BEST arguments. In other words the above is
YOUR best case scenario you can find and I'd like to quote something directly out of that study (the most favorable study done in that era that favors your position) :
"
Most of the estimates found that even though unauthorized immigrants pay taxes and other fees to state and local jurisdictions, the resulting revenues offset only a portion of the costs incurred by those jurisdictions for providing services related to education, health care, and law enforcement. Although it is difficult to obtain precise estimates of the net impact of the unauthorized population on state and local budgets (see Box 1), that impact is most likely modest. "
This study is limited to what the foreigners pay in taxes versus what they receive in benefits. In the real world - IF WE'RE BEING HONEST, that only gives part of the picture. The impact to you and I is that wealth is generated in our favor because the foreigner is more productive and produces wealth that adds to your bottom line. I'll explain simple economics to you:
Bubba pulls up to your door and gives you an estimate to do a home repair for $7500. A Mexican guy drives up and says he'll do the job for $5000. Bubba gets an extra $2500 for the job and proceeds to spend his money on junk made in China, Japan, Korea, etc. Now, this gets a bit tricky, but let me simplify it for you:
You saved $2500 on the home repair, leading to your home being worth more for a smaller price. The $2500 you save means that,
at a minimum* is adding to your net worth AND the bank that holds your mortgage got much richer. Banks can loan out
FOUR dollars to every
ONE they hold in assets. So, your $2500 in savings just became $10,000 that the bank can loan out for business expansion, home building, etc. At the end of the day, THAT is why employers hire foreign labor.
* I said at a minimum in order to make the numbers work to your favor. The reality is, according to my research:
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For those who remodel, the average payback in a home’s resale value is 56 percent of the cost of the remodel, but for those who replaced things like garage doors or windows, the payback is a much higher 75 percent. "
Here is the latest look at how much homeowners can recoup in home value from their renovation projects.
www.cnbc.com
So, I'm working the numbers to YOUR favor and not only did the bank have more money to loan out,
your net worth increased substantially so that you have more money to spend later down the road. All you accomplish by overpaying to Bubba was to allow him to buy more garbage made in foreign countries. Maybe it's time you realize that Americans have to become more competitive. You need to figure out why we consume over 80 percent of the world's opioid supply, have more people in prisons than any other country on this planet, are the drug capital of the world and have half our citizenry dependent upon government for at least some portion of their livelihood. They are not going to get the jobs when foreigners are more dependable workers and produce more per hour than their American counterparts.