Representative Robert Cramer
2367 Rayburn House Office Building, U.S. House
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Representative Cramer,
Apparently, the White House and Senate Republicans believe that American workers and our families should subsidize foreign workers and their families with our taxes. This is outrageous!
Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation has done an in-depth study on the costs of high-school-dropout households, which would dramatically increase under the new Bush/Republican Senator immigration proposal. The costs to Americans would be staggering.
Rector found that the share of federal, state and local costs for each of these high-school-dropout households is around \$43,000 a year.
But he subtracted out their share of defense and interest on debt, concluding that the incremental Federal, state, and local expenditures for each household is around \$32,000 a year in government support.
The Heritage Foundation scholar then painstakingly dug through government data to find every kind of tax that these households pay. He even included money spent on lottery tickets (an average \$686 per year) and excise taxes, as well as FICA and property taxes and many others.
He said he was a bit surprised to find that these high-school-dropout households pay more taxes than he expected - nearly \$10,000 a year.
Nonetheless, the bottom line is that these households require \$22,000 each year
in net taxpayer subsidies.
Rector's study indicates that these total households headed by foreign-born high school drop-outs are costing taxpayers a net of around:
\$100 BILLION a year
Nevertheless, the new White House/Republican Senator immigration plan would ensure that all the illegal aliens getting that subsidy would remain here to keep collecting ...
... and that we would add large numbers of new households every year so that the total subsidy could grow much larger.
In short, this proposal is an affront to every American taxpayer and should be stopped in its tracks.
Don't hesitate to call me,
P.S. This is more important for America than any war overseas !
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