04/13/2006
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Federal Taxes and Expenditures per Illegal Alien Household, 2006 |
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Tax Payments |
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Social Security |
$1,886 |
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Income tax |
$1,533 |
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Excise and other taxes |
$605 |
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Medicare |
$499 |
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Unemployment |
$93 |
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Corporate income tax |
$94 |
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Total Tax Payments |
$4,708 |
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Expenditures |
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Federal prisons, courts, INS |
$850 |
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Medicaid |
$735 |
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Treatment for uninsured |
$661 |
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Food assistance |
$558 |
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Federal Aid to Education |
$415 |
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Social Security & Medicare |
$323 |
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Welfare |
$248 |
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Other transfer payments |
$494 |
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All Other Expenditures |
$3,483 |
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Total Expenditures |
$7,769 |
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Deficit (Taxes less benefits) |
($3,061) |
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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. |
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State and Local Taxes and Expenditures per Immigrant Household: California (2006 dollars) |
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Tax Payments |
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Income tax |
$1,320 |
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Property tax |
$1,191 |
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Sales tax |
$703 |
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All other |
$6,312 |
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Total Tax Payments |
$9,526 |
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Expenditures |
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K-12 education |
$5,033 |
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Transfers to households |
$1,819 |
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All other |
$6,950 |
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Total Expenditures |
$13,802 |
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Fiscal Deficit (Taxes less spending) |
($4,276) |
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Note: Author used CPI to inflate original (1996) figures in NRC report. Source: National Research Council, The New Americans,: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration, 1997. Table 6.3. |
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Tax Revenues Lost From Displacement of U.S.-Born Workers by Foreign-born Workers ($ Billions) |
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Total Revenues |
Revenue Loss |
Percentage Loss |
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| 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 is President of ESR Research Economic Consultants in Indianapolis.
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