Something does not add up....

[Playinghardball]

[Stuart G]

1. Yes, more people need to see this...k and r..nt

[pscot]

2. k&r

[LuckyLib]

3. This needs to be talked about when folks

claim immigrants are a tax burden. Clean up corporate and religious welfare and we'll talk about it.

[progressoid]

4. $38,000?

That number would actually piss off a lot of Americans.

Overall, "…average earnings ranged from $18,900 for high school dropouts to $25,900 for high school graduates, $45,400 for college graduates and $99,300 for workers with professional degrees...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States

While I agree with the sentiment, I think teabaggers would use the 38K number as an argument to keep them out ("they're taking our jobs!!1&quot .

[WowSeriously]

5. Funny how the Cons don't want to apply

Supply and demand, you know, MARKET FORCES, to the "immigration problem". Eliminate the demand (corporate citizen criminals) and the supply will will dry up.

[hfojvt]

13. certainly pisses me off

especially if that is an AVERAGE.

[OnionPatch]

14. I read it's per household.

And typically their households contain more than one worker. (Found this at pewhispanics.org).

[madashelltoo]

6. Not only does it not add up!

It's smelling the place up something fierce!

[JNelson6563]

7. K&R!

[ReRe]

8. K&R

[passiveporcupine]

9. Let's look at some numbers

the $11.2 billion in taxes paid by illegal immigrants in 2010 included $8.4 billion in sales taxes, $1.6 billion in property taxes and $1.2 billion in state personal income taxes.

While California may have realized $2.7 billion from taxes paid by illegal immigrants in 2010, a 2004 report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform showed that California spends over $10.5 billion annually on the education, health care and incarceration of its illegal immigrant population.

I am for immigration reform, because it will cost us less to have them here as legal citizens making at least minimum wage. 1.4 Billion of Cali's money goes toward health care and the same amount toward incarceration of illegals. And 30K is very low income for a family in Cali. Wouldn't it make more sense to make them legal and let them buy Obamacare and participate in the economy fully?

This info came from:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/incometaxandtheirs/a/Illegal-Immigrants-Pay-Taxes-Too.htm

which linked to this article:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/immigrationnaturalizatio/a/caillegals.htm

Both extremely informative articles.

Oh, and BTW, that is median household income (36K), not individual income.

[passiveporcupine]

10. I especially wanted to point to this from the second link.

"Nothing could more starkly illustrate the very high costs of ‘cheap labor' than California's current situation," continued Stein. "A small number of powerful interests in the state reap the benefits, while the average native-born family in California gets handed a nearly $1,200 a year bill."

[Enthusiast]

11. Wow! Just wow! Kicked and recommended, baby!

[rhett o rick]

12. That's not really a fair picture.

They left out GE's political expenses to buy Congress-critters. I bet the undocumented immigrants dont have to pay that.

[blkmusclmachine]

15. Savvy!