Yeah, credit goes to CSD on that one. He threw up some links in a similar argument several years ago and I learned about the taxpayer ID's.
It makes a twisted kind of sense from the IRS' point of view; They aren't getting deported, you might as well get the taxes.
Yeah, but not all susnshine & roses, as the agencies involved have become corrupt by not prosecuting very obvious violations of tax law, immigration law, and identity theft (when TIN & SSN mismatch) for a little bit of money. Emphasis on
little (see below). Retail individual corruption: "The man is a swine!" Wholesale institutional corruption: "Where is that humanitarian of the year award?"
Wait until you find out that illegal aliens are supporting you on Social Security: http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2017113852_immigtaxes29.html
Yeah, not so much. Oh, I have no doubt such payments exist, but they are a pittance. And if they are amnestied, Social Security will be even worse off.
The fact is, the wealth/income/GDP bump that a country might get from illegal immigration into the USA is minuscule.
They just plain are not productive enough and have too few skills. Subtract their contribution to GDP and you would be hard-pressed to notice the difference relative to any rounding errors. ("Hey, these GDP numbers are different. Did you leave out the contribution of illegal aliens?" "Nope, I just used the correct number of significant digits this time.") Oh, those whose business plan relies on illegal immigrant helot labor would howl, but the impact at the grocery store would be a couple cents/head of lettuce, easily swamped by a bump in fuel prices.
And the first time the illegal gets injured and goes to the county hospital, their first anchor baby is born, the first semester their anchor baby goes to school, the first time they get a DWI and sit it out in jail, and suchlike, all those tax dollars are burned & more.
In 2009, the last year for which figures are available, employers reported wages of $72.8 billion for 7.7 million workers who could not be matched to legal Social Security numbers.
In 2009, US GDP was ~$14trillion or ~$14000billion(1). Reported wages of presumable illegals in 2009 was 0.0052 of the US GDP. That is 0.52% of GDP. A half of a percent.
In 2009, the budget outlays for just Social Security was $949.4B(2). 12.4% of $72.8B is $9B, or 0.95% of the SS budget for 2009.
Assuming that half of illegals pay SStax, we would need another 140million illegals in the USA in 2009 to cover 2009's SS obligations.
That math only gets worse from there. IOW, don;t expect to keep SS solvent with illegal alien tax receipts.
(1) Why the "~"? Because depending on the source, 2009 GDP swings from a smidge below $14B to $14.5B. I chose $14B to make the illegal alien contribution as large as possible.
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_2000_2010USb_14s2li011lcn__US_Gross_Domestic_Product_GDP_History(2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_United_States_federal_budget
