Anybody worried about potentially handing over heavily taxed healthcare free of charge to visitors that cross the border? The deficit is already out of control and if Bernie does get what he wants how long before the entire system constitution and all topples over? Is this the goal? Denmark is heavily taxed as well but they don't give visitors free healthcare.
No not really, does any one ask about the cost of bombs we drop accidently on hospitals and schools? I understand people not wanting to give to those that are not citizens, especially if they came here illegally. However, the numbers say they help our economy so keeping them healthy helps us all. And why should we not invest in our blue collar working citizens because of a whataboutism?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/econom...s-about-how-immigrants-affect-the-u-s-economy
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Myth #1: Immigrants take more from the U.S. government than they contribute
Fact: Immigrants contribute more in tax revenue than they take in government benefits
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2017 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found immigration “has an overall positive impact on the long-run economic growth in the U.S.”
How that breaks down is important.
First-generation immigrants cost the government more than native-born Americans, according to the report — about $1,600 per person annually. But second generation immigrants are “among the strongest fiscal and economic contributors in the U.S.,” the report found. They contribute about $1,700 per person per year. All other native-born Americans, including third generation immigrants, contribute $1,300 per year on average.
After being detained and released by law enforcement, undocumented immigrants from Central America wait for assistance in a Catholic Charities relief center in McAllen, Texas. Photo by Loren Elliott/Reuters.
It is difficult to determine the exact cost or contribution of unauthorized immigrants because they are harder to survey, but the study suggests they likely have a more positive effect than their legal counterparts because they are, on average, younger and do not qualify for public benefits.
It’s also important to note that less-educated immigrants tend to work more than people with the same level of education born in the U.S. About half of all U.S.-born Americans with no high school diploma work, compared to about 70 percent of immigrants with the same education level, Giovanni Peri, an economics professor at the University of California, Davis, said in
a recent interview with PBS NewsHour.
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