If Bush didn’t manage to ensure our country’s bankruptcy with his prescription drug handout, amnesty for illegal aliens ought to do the trick. Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation recounts a few facts you won’t hear from Bush, Kennedy, McCain, or the rest of the irresponsible fools who are steering the ship of state straight at an iceberg, including this one:
Low-skill immigrants receive, on average, three dollars in government benefits for each dollar of taxes paid. This imbalance generates a net cost of $89 billion per year on U.S. taxpayers. Over a lifetime the typical low-skill immigrant household costs taxpayers $1.2 million dollars.
Rector estimates that the cost of amnesty alone will reach $2.6 trillion once illegal immigrant recipients of government largesse reach retirement age.
As for the wishful canard that making millions of low-skill illegal aliens eligible for every entitlement under the sun will somehow keep Social Security afloat,
In the not too distant future, the Social Security trust fund will be in deficit. Government will have to use general revenues to help pay promised benefits. Since amnesty recipients and their families will consume more government revenues that they contribute, they will undermine the financial support for U.S. retirees even before they reach retirement age themselves.
There will reach a point where the American economy simply cannot pay the bill for all the moonbattery gushing out of Washington, no matter how high taxes are raised. Our current crop of bureaucrats may even live to see it. Let’s hope they do. They certainly deserve to go down with the ship.
On a tip from Byron. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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