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Originally posted by Privateinquotations
reply to post by Night Star
good call this bill needs to be squashed yesterday. I wish they would stop lumping so much other crap into these bills it is so misleading when not even the people who vote on them understand or even read them.
Another trigger requires a detailed system of technology and infrastructure mandated in the bill must also be deployed and operational before green cards will be given to amnesty recipients. But this is made moot by a later provision that empowers DHS to waive all of the detailed requirements, in effect rendering the detailed border control plan meaningless.
Under Obamacare, businesses with over 50 workers that employ American citizens without offering them qualifying health insurance could be subject to fines of up to $3,000 per worker. But because newly legalized immigrants wouldn’t be eligible for subsidies on the Obamacare exchanges until after they become citizens – at least 13 years under the Senate bill – businesses could avoid such fines by hiring the new immigrants instead.”
And this bill is supposed to show a financial gain when in reality, in so many years it will ruin us with trillions of dollars of debt.
Originally posted by HauntWok
reply to post by Privateinquotations
Listen, I'm not going to bother debating the birther crap. It's over. get over it.
E-Verify works. Humans make mistakes. But E-Verify does work.
The point of that post was that your birther argument was complete dunk. As all birther nonsense is complete dunk.
Immigration reform needs to be done. Y'all aren't happy with the way things are going even though Obam a has deported more people than Bush did.
Y'all are against big government, but at the same time want big government. It makes no sense.
When did i claim to be a birther?
Yes trillions on a long enough timeline.
Originally posted by HauntWok
reply to post by Night Star
And this bill is supposed to show a financial gain when in reality, in so many years it will ruin us with trillions of dollars of debt.
Trillions huh? Obviously the right wing media has really REALLY brainwashed you. That statement you made makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
The cost of illegal immigration and amnesty could amount to $6.3 trillion, which would fall on American taxpayers over the long term, according to a Heritage Foundation analysis. As Heritage showed, the majority of illegal immigrants receiving amnesty would receive far more in taxpayer-funded benefits than they would pay in taxes. Even critics of the Heritage study admit amnesty will cost trillions of dollars. Whether it is $4 trillion, $6 trillion or more, the additional costs to the U.S. taxpayer are still too high.
Heritage’s analysis is based on the Department of Homeland Security’s estimate that there are 11.5 million illegal immigrants currently in the United States. “The DHS estimates that there are some 10.4 million unlawful immigrants recorded in Census surveys and 1.1 million more who are not reported by the Census,” explains Heritage expert Robert Rector. The first number is based on evidence, but the second is a guess, meaning there may be far more. If the number of illegal immigrants is actually 20 percent greater than the 11.5 million assumed in the Heritage analysis, the long-term fiscal cost of amnesty would increase proportionately, adding perhaps $1.2 trillion to the lifetime fiscal deficit.
The Heritage analysis is based on the very conservative assumption “that means-tested welfare and medical benefits per household will grow no faster than general inflation for the next 50 years.” However, Rector explains, “the historical record suggests that this is highly unlikely. For nearly every year for the past half-century, welfare spending per capita has increased much faster than inflation.” It is a similar story for medical care. “The main analysis in this paper assumes that the cost of medical services per beneficiary will grow no faster than inflation for the next 50 years,” says Rector. “This is likely an underestimate and probably results in an understatement of future spending.”
Originally posted by Privateinquotations
reply to post by Night Star
Thanks again for the info. So where are the positives of this bill? The fence won't stop anything, they will find another way.