It all sounds good except the facts get in the way
I know I should keep my mouth shut but here goes.
The average illegal alien costs $87,000 more than they will ever produce and that's before Social Security is added in. The average family of 4 in California costs the taxpayers $57,000 per year!
It does't save the US economy money. If it did, why do the states with the largest illegal populations have massive budget problems? It is cost shifting; so one person gets thier lawn cut cheaper but we all subsidize it through taxes.
Military spending as a percentage of the overall budget is historically and for a time of war it is unheard of.
Over 65% of the Federal Budget is entitlements: Medicaid, Medicare, Welfare, Food Stamps, etc. All programs started since WWII and dramatically expanded under Johnson during the War of Poverty. We have spent trillions on that war with very little sign of success. When do we "redeploy" on subsidizing failure?
Why pay billions for illegal aliens on one hand and pay billions in welfare subsidizing unemployment and failure on the other? Call me crazy but somethings wrong with this picture.
O.K. I retreat up to 100,000
The 300,000 was a figure that my mother (a private high school teacher) got from some source but here is what I found:
According to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”), nearly 33% of the nation’s adult homeless population served in the United States Armed Services. The VA further states that on any given day, as many as 200,000 male and female veterans are living on the streets or in shelters, and perhaps twice as many experience homelessness at some point during the course of a year. As if to underscore the seriousness of the problem of homeless military veterans throughout the nation, the VA characterizes the predicament another way: currently, the number of homeless male and female Vietnam era veterans is greater than the number of service persons who died during the Vietnam War.
VIVA LA MIGRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lies, damn lies, and statistics
[QUOTE=Prefer Anal][QUOTE=Digital Curry]"Almost everyone here seems to be missing the point.
Wake up people! The top 1/4 of 1% have received 75% of the tax cuts."
They deserve the tax cuts:
People with incomes $200,000 and over pay 42.7% of the taxes, $377 Billion.
People with incomes $100,000 to 200,000 pay 24.1% of the taxes, $213 Billion.
People with incomes $75,000 to 100,000 pay 12.8% of the taxes, $113 Billion.
People with incomes 50,000 to 75,000 pay 12.9% of the taxes $114 Billion.
People with incomes of $40,000 to 50,000 pay 4.4% of the taxes, or $39 Billion, and
people with incomes of$30,000 to 40,000 pay only 3.4% of the taxes, or $30 Billion!
Finally, people with incomes of only $20,000 to 30,000 pay only 1.1% of the taxes, or $10 Billion!
More info: the TOP 1% of income earners pay 33.6% of all the taxes!
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[QUOTE=Bart9000]Can you document the sources on any of your tax figures. I've seen the right wing media figures use some pretty creative math to make their cases.....or just outright lie with math.....most of their followers don't have advanced degrees in quantitative subjects...I'm calling bullshit.
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[url]http://www.house.gov/jec/publications/109/rr109-36.pdf[/url]
Some examples:
AGI $200,000 and over pay ~$313 Billion
AGI $100,000 to 200,000 pay ~$163 Billion
AGI $20,000 to 30,000 pay ~$9 Billion
The top 1% of tax filers paid 34.27% of federal personal income taxes in 2003.
Bullshit is in the eye of the beholder.