Originally Posted by Contendah:
Arpaio is finally getting at least a little of what he deserves and it is about time. He has cost the county millions of dollars in legal settlements related to his egregious version of "law enforcement."
This sorry skunk is the sheriff who "houses" scores, maybe hundreds, of prisoners in tents where Arizona summer temperatures frequently reach 100 degrees or greater. He is, and long has been, a disgrace to law enforcement and the corrections system. Sheriff Joe has gotta go!
Here is an enlightening bill of particulars about the activities of this cretin:
http://azdem.org/the_real_sheriff_joe/
"Hell, I thought pink pajamas were in style."
Can ah get ah "amen" on tha' cost there Brothah!!!!
The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers
This report estimates the annual costs of illegal immigration at the federal, state and local level to be about $113 billion; nearly $29 billion at the federal level and $84 billion at the state and local level. The study also estimates tax collections from illegal alien workers, both those in the above-ground economy and those in the underground economy. Those receipts do not come close to the level of expenditures and, in any case, are misleading as an offset because over time unemployed and underemployed U.S. workers would replace illegal alien workers.
Key Findings
- Illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers about $113 billion a year at the federal, state and local level. The bulk of the costs — some $84 billion — are absorbed by state and local governments.
- The annual outlay that illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers is an average amount per native-headed household of $1,117. The fiscal impact per household varies considerably because the greatest share of the burden falls on state and local taxpayers whose burden depends on the size of the illegal alien population in that locality
- Education for the children of illegal aliens constitutes the single largest cost to taxpayers, at an annual price tag of nearly $52 billion. Nearly all of those costs are absorbed by state and local governments.
- At the federal level, about one-third of outlays are matched by tax collections from illegal aliens. At the state and local level, an average of less than 5 percent of the public costs associated with illegal immigration is recouped through taxes collected from illegal aliens.
- Most illegal aliens do not pay income taxes. Among those who do, much of the revenues collected are refunded to the illegal aliens when they file tax returns. Many are also claiming tax credits resulting in payments from the U.S. Treasury.
- http://www.fairus.org/publicat...ion-on-u-s-taxpayers
