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Originally Posted by Boozer
It looks like the report basically takes the noncontroversial position that poor households are a net drain on the federal budget, and because we know X percent of poor households are illegal, we know that illegal households are a net drain on the federal budget.
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That's pretty much what I was trying to say when I doubted they were a net gain. Especially in the case of illegal hispanics, who are made up of mostly low income households.
Regardless, I don't see how people not paying taxes could possibly be better than people paying taxes.
Also, I don't know how recent those studies are, but I wonder if they take into account the amount of tax dollars that are now being spent on making everything bilingual. I know that schools in my area didn't have ESL teachers 10 years ago. I also know that things like the IRS publishing their forms in a second language has to have been an added expense for the government.