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Trump budget purposes eliminating ARPA
- fishcolorbrick 9y agoPage 2 (PDF pg 12) of this document includes detail on how much money would be saved by these changes: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/msar-fy2019.pdf https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/msar-f... For example, ARPA's budget would be cut from $305 million per year to $0 per year, saving every US citizen $0.93. Per the given document, the total reductions and eliminations would save $48,397,000,000 saving US citizens $147.92 per year. I'm editorializing, but I think that, given the size of the budgets we're talking about, I am getting a good return on my investment, and would rather have these programs than an extra couple hundred bucks.
- fishcolorbrick 9y agoI'm surprised that State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) is being eliminated; it reimburses states for the money spent housing unauthorized immigrants pending deportation. Isn't the administration's plan to deport a bunch of people? This shifts the burden of deportation costs from a federal level (where all states share it equally) to a local level, where states that have more deported people pay directly. So if you're Texas, Arizona[0], or other states with high percentages of unauthorized immigrants, you're going to lose a federal subsidy of hundreds of millions, and either lay off a lot of corrections workers or pay that cost yourselves through increased tax revenue? [0]: http://www.pewhispanic.org/interactives/unauthorized-immigrants/ http://www.pewhispanic.org/interactives/unauthorized-immigra...