MovieChat Forums > Politics > How/why do illegals pay taxes?

You didn't know that illegal aliens pay taxes? Of course, they do! They're here to work and have a better life. And they're very hard workers, too.

"Study says undocumented immigrants paid almost $100 billion in taxes

Undocumented immigrants pay property taxes and sales taxes, and federal payroll taxes taken from their wages, as well as income tax returns using Individual Taxpayer Identification numbers. Despite those payroll taxes funding Medicare, Social Security and Unemployment Insurance, undocumented immigrants are not eligible to enroll in and receive regular benefits from these social programs. They can also face barriers to getting tax refunds, including getting scammed by unscrupulous tax preparers who target immigrant communities, said Jackie Vimo, senior analyst of economic justice policy at the National Immigration Law Center in a media call on the report."
https://kentuckylantern.com/2024/07/30/study-says-undocumented-immigrants-paid-almost-100-billion-in-taxes/

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Illegal aliens also pay excise taxes, gasoline, tobacco, alcohol, etc.


MAGA will tell you that illegal aliens also pay corporate income taxes but they're full of shit.

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Now DOGE can arrest all the employers for taking on illegals!

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Never going to happen! Rich white men hire them.

Same story with prostitutes and Johns. Johns are never arrested.

Anyway, illegal immigrants help the economy which is why nothing was historically done. U.S. economy will likely tank soon between the rising inflation, lack of workers and no company growth from lack of workers and consumers. Don't forget that illegals shop helping the economy, too.

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Trump signs executive order ending use of taxpayer money to 'incentivize or support' illegal immigration.

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Lots of criminals pay taxes...

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I hire employees who are probably illegal but they pay taxes. Don't tell me that the feds are not complicit in this.

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They found out that the main problem isn't income tax ,but other ways.

In many migrant communities one family homes house 2 or 3 families.
It's an example of a single residence paying property and school tax, but the schools are paying for multiple children.

Its puts schools in the red because they find approximately 13 children in a class of 25 have parent's contributing to schools tax.

This also brushes over in police, fire, roads and bridges. In these sectors they are finding more People use these services then there people financialy contributing to help maintain these things

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Link?

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This information about the school system is accurate and I'm surprised to encounter it here. Add to it that many illegal families have more children on average than their citizen counterparts and the problem is compounded.

Do you know what many schools do to get around this? They classify the students with learning disabilities, on top of being EL, so that they can receive federal funds for special education services to compensate for running in the red, as you put it.

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