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No citations? “ Therefore, despite legal restrictions on benefits for legal immigrants and outright bans for unlawful immigrants, the large difference in taxes
by notmyjob 1y ago
No citations?
“ Therefore, despite legal restrictions on benefits for legal immigrants and outright bans for unlawful immigrants, the large difference in taxes paid between native-born Americans and immigrants without high school diplomas, even those of a very young age, results in a net fiscal cost—i.e., every additional immigrant aged 18–24 without a high school diploma is expected to worsen the fiscal outlook of the United States”
https://manhattan.institute/article/the-lifetime-fiscal-impact-of-immigrants https://manhattan.institute/article/the-lifetime-fiscal-impa...
- boston_clone 1y agoPlenty to pick apart about that research institute, but the author even acknowledges major analytical flaws before arriving at their shaky conclusion: >This report treats immigrants as individuals in order to avoid treating households of married native-born and immigrant residents as half-immigrant and half-native [...] The economics literature is divided on this matter, partially because the U.S. tax unit is households, not individuals. You should find better citations tbh.