Its not reality you have outlined, but a specific case that is almost impossible to qualify for. It is the same accounting that was used against welfare mothers in the 80′s. Nobody would choose to live in poverty to get the maximum govt benefits.

Its a good attempt at math but the picture you paint is flawed/incomplete.

-H

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/03/eveningnews/main6457212.shtml

Here is a May 3rd story of a family fleeing to Colorado after Arizona SB 1070 was signed by the governor. This couple busted the borders in 1995 and squatted in Arizona. Since 1995, they have had ten anchor babies. 10! For the purpose of study, the number did not have to be 10, it could easily be 5 or 3, but lets go with 10. Both parents were unemployed when they fled Arizona, but had been working in restaurants and construction.

Probably most everyone knows if you have 10 kids (or even half that), your not going have ANY tax withholding from your pay check, so you can immediately dismiss the myth “they pay taxes”. This is a pre-amnesty scenario, so what has this unit already cost taxpayers?

I really have no idea the current cost of childbirth, but for argument sake lets say $5,000 a pop. Under Arizona AHCCCS federally mandated “healthcare”, that adds up to $50,000 with pre-natal, delivery, and post-natal care.

Assuming all ten children are or will be in public schools, that’s $65,000 per year ($6,500 per student).

Again, assuming that under Arizona Prop 200 this family has not been receiving food stamps, rent assistance, cash assistance, etc. A post-amnesty environment would then qualify them for all this, plus more.

Putting aside the $50K for anchor popping, let look at some post-amnesty costs (estimates) while assuming ZERO witholding from any paychecks received:

1) $65,000 per year for schooling
2) $6,000 per year (12 family members x $500) for basic healthcare which now includes mom and dad under AHCCCS
3) $6,000 per year in food stamps ($500 per month)
4) $5,666 per year Earned Income tax credit (2009 credit for a family with 3 or more children and a maximum household income of $48,362)
5) $10,000 Child Tax Credit(2009 max. credit $1,000 per child)

Assuming no serious illness or teen pregnancies, this scratches the surface for basics. Assuming again this couple – both working – earn the maximum EIC income of $48,362 with ZERO WITHHOLDING. Let’s assume they spend every penny for taxable goods and services with a tax rate of 10%.

Now this add these annual simple numbers together:

1. +$4,836 paid in tax for goods and services
2. -$65,000 public schooling (10 x $6,500)
3. -$6,000 AHCCCS health care (12 x $500)
4. -$6,000 for food stamps ($500 per month)
5. -$3,500 Federal income tax refund
6. -$400 state tax refund with Arizona Family Tax credit

TOTAL = -$70,064 annually

The average illegal alien family – pardon me – Hispanic family have 5 children. So lets assume everything is the same, except 5 kids instead of 10, and rerun the numbers:

1. +$4,836 paid in tax for goods and services
2. -$32,500 public schooling (5 x $6,500)
3. -$3,500 basic health care AHCCCS (7 x $500)
4. -$3,000 for food stamps ($250 per month)
5. -$3,500 Federal tax refund
6. -$200 state tax refund with Family Credit

TOTAL = -$37,864 annually

Yes, these numbers can vary one way or another. But basically, THIS is the cost to taxpayers to be “humanitarians”. Now, multiply this in a post-amnesty America by 20-25 million (the media-government complex has been telling you “12 million” for ten years – with several thousand new ones hopping the border every day) but you ‘buy it’ anyway.

But, lets use “12 million” and cut that to “8 million” and use the “average” family size of 2 parents and 5 kids from above.

$37,864 x 8,000,000 = a bankrupt country

THIS is what nobody will talk about. But it is, within reason, reality.

Arizona has had enough. No more. Time to “flush the John” and let it float away to pasture.

Let’s see how the McCainiac fan club responds!

Will “Molly Pitcher”/Lisa submit another puff piece or will she permanently return to the Giuliani ranks?

Stay tuned!

She just got downsized this week and that pay more than doubles her current pay!