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Old 05-13-2008, 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by C-D-P View Post
Actually. Even with the taxes that some of them pay. There is still a 10 billion dollar deficit on what they take.
Those numbers are in dispute, and they only reflect the short-term deficit common to all new immigrants -- not the long-term benefit they and their descendants will bring.

Plus, consider that $10 billion represents roughly 30 seconds of U.S. economic output.

The problem can be very large on a local level, but on a national scale it's small.
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