Breitbart: Refugees cost taxpayers BILLIONS
each year, by Ann Corcoran 2/20/17
While bringing refugees to the US
from certain parts of the world poses a security risk for America, often
forgotten is the huge cost to US taxpayers (federal, state and local) of
placing them in communities already loaded with poor people, a practice the
mayor of Springfield, Mass. recently pointed out.
The Democrat mayor of Springfield,
Mass recently said that the US Refugee Admissions Program concentrates “poverty
on top of poverty!”
And, before the refugee industry
starts shouting about the fact that some refugees ultimately pay taxes, in
reality very few even reach the income threshold to pay taxes and many who make
small amounts of income can actually file to get money back from the government through earned income tax
credits while not ever having paid in anything.
Here is Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart in an article entitled: ‘Refugees Will Cost Taxpayers an Estimated
$4.1 Billion in FY 2017’ says:
American taxpayers will spend more than $4.1 billion in the 2017 budget
to support the 519,018 refugees who have been resettled by the federal
government in the United States since October 2009, according to a cost
estimate by Breitbart News.
To put that very large number in context,
$4.1 billion can buy 10,677 new homes for $384,000 each, which is the average
price of a new home sold in the United States in December 2016. Or it could buy
170,124 new autos for $24,100 each, which is the manufacturer’s suggested
retail price for a 2017 Chevrolet Malibu.
Even if the Trump administration were to entirely shut down the flow of
refugees into the United States in FY 2018 and beyond, the refugees who have
already arrived in the country will cost at least another $3.5 billion in 2018,
and about $2 billion to $3 billion annually thereafter until FY 2022 and beyond.
Here is one of several useful charts
prepared by Leahy. This summarizes the COST PER REFUGEE: (see original article) For more fun with numbers, continue reading here.
Where is Congress? Donald
Trump can cut the numbers arriving in the US while he is in office and can tinker
with the regulations, but unless Congress grows a spine and reforms this
out-of-control federal program, in 4 or 8 years we will go back to a wide open
spigot! There is a limit to what can be done with a phone and a pen as Obama
learned the hard way.
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