Note also that the vast bulk of this number is payroll taxes - i.e. taxes that would be paid by any person doing this job. These aren’t extra tax revenues we magically get because these people are here, they’re the exact same tax revenues we would be getting if the job was held by a citizen or legal immigrant (or possibly lower if the illegal is being paid below market wages), but with the added benefit of there often being stolen SSNs and fraud that affects citizen victims involved!
Besides the wage deflation caused by illegal immigrants, the graphic and this post both ignore the increased costs to the rest of us through hospitals and insurance companies.
Note also that the vast bulk of this number is payroll taxes - i.e. taxes that would be paid by any person doing this job. These aren’t extra tax revenues we magically get because these people are here, they’re the exact same tax revenues we would be getting if the job was held by a citizen or legal immigrant (or possibly lower if the illegal is being paid below market wages), but with the added benefit of there often being stolen SSNs and fraud that affects citizen victims involved!
Besides the wage deflation caused by illegal immigrants, the graphic and this post both ignore the increased costs to the rest of us through hospitals and insurance companies.
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/what-the-nash-equilibrium-teaches