National Academies Hides $500 Billion ‘Immigration Tax’ In 495-Page Report
by NEIL MUNRO
22 Sep 2016
Officials at a prestigious private D.C.-based think-tank are trying to hide their data showing how mass immigration is imposing massive costs on wage-earners and on taxpayers.
The think-tank, titled The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, is not a government-run agency. It is a privately run think-tank which writes politically influential reports for government and private-sector funders. For example, the group’s new Sept. 22 immigration study was funded by the pro-immigration John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The jargon-filled, much-caveated, 495-page report does show the information needed to measure how legal and illegal immigration transfers $500 billion a year from the wages paid to working-Americans towards companies, firms, Wall Street investors and to new immigrants. But the report does not provide a dollar figure for the ‘immigration tax.’
Deep in the report, but not in the press release, it shows how each new unskilled immigrant costs state and local taxpayers $1,600 per year. It shows how the annual cost of legal and illegal immigration to state and local taxpayer is at least $57 billion, and that each unskilled immigrant is a net loss to taxpayers for the next 75 years.
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