Show us the (illegal immigrant) money
Today’s New York Times editorial must have been written by someone who reads The Mex Files:
Immigration is good for the financial health of Social Security because more workers mean more tax revenue. Illegal immigration, it turns out, is even better than legal immigration. In the fine print of the 2008 annual report on Social Security, released last week, the program’s trustees noted that growing numbers of “other than legal” workers are expected to bolster the program over the coming decades.
One reason is that many undocumented workers pay taxes during their work lives but don’t collect benefits later. Another is that undocumented workers are entering the United States at ever younger ages and are expected to have more children while they’re here than if they arrived at later ages. The result is a substantial increase in the number of working-age people paying taxes, but a relatively smaller increase in the number of retirees who receive benefits — a double boon to Social Security’s bottom line.
We’re not talking chump change….
Exactly one year ago, the Mex Files pointed out that remittances are good for both the home country of “illegals” and the country in which they are working.
The only financial problems caused by immigration are both red herrings. Even a dirt-poor “third world country” like Jamaica can provide heath care to all its residents, so claiming “illegal aliens” are responsible for health costs in the United States is ridiculous. What causes health care financial problems in the U.S. has to do with the way it’s financed, and national priorities, nothing else.
One reason I moved back to Mexico was that I can get comprehensive health care coverage for about $250 US a year, and in Texas has squat. Though I haven’t started working (I’m waiting on my “green-go card” to get processed) I do pay Mexican taxes, just as anyone else — even tourists — pay taxes when they are in the U.S. And we’re not talking “chump change” either.
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I wrote something similar along these lines in a response to Jeff Sessions’ ridiculous step by step “plan” to rid the country of illegal immigrants. I mentioned that illegal immigrants were paying into Social Security but that they would never be able to get that money back and someone else would benefit.
I also remember a time when, as a poor, single mother, people like me were blamed for putting a strain on the health care system (medicaid) and on the wellfare system. This was in a time before it became popular and acceptable to blame Hispanics for everything.
I’ve never understood how anyone could blame illegal immigrants for stealing our jobs when huge corporations have been outsourcing American jobs to countries like China and India for years. This practice takes jobs from Americans and the only ones who profit are the higher-ups in the corporation.
“I’ve never understood how anyone could blame illegal immigrants for stealing our jobs when huge corporations have been outsourcing American jobs to countries like China and India for years. This practice takes jobs from Americans and the only ones who profit are the higher-ups in the corporation.”
Because the same idiots losing thier overpaid UNION jobs to China and India are the same people who find the “Wetbacks” as an acceptable scapegoat. These people don’t realize that you can only tax corporations so much before they find a way to cut costs either by registering thier corporate HQ in a tax haven or by outsourcing easy labor to labor hungry nations such as India or China et al.
Michael Moore was one of the biggest critics of NAFTA allowing Ford Motors to outsource simple jobs to Mexico where the locals worked a lot harder and for less than thier Detroit counterparts. He is responsible for a lot of the Mexican Hate on the Left. If you want to stop illegal Immigration in America, you simply should support guest worker programs and work as hard as you can to end individual and corporte welfare like farm subsidies.
Unfortunately, too many people do not understand the complexities of free markets and will accept socialism such as welfare, farm subsidies, and corporat bailouts. People are especially scarred when thier favorite sports team threatens to move out of town if they don’t get a new stadium built for them.