Undocumented Immigrants Paid $11.2 Billion In Taxes While GE Paid Nothing

[Swede]

This past month, there was much outrage over the fact that General Electric, despite making $14.2 billion in profits, paid zero U.S. taxes in 2010. General Electric actually received tax credits of $3.2 billion from American taxpayers.

At the same time that General Electric was not paying taxes, many undocumented immigrants, who are typically accused of taking advantage of the system while not contributing to it by many on the right, paid $11.2 billion in taxes. A new study by the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy shows that undocumented immigrants paid $8.4 billion in sales taxes, $1.6 billion in property taxes, and $1.2 billion in personal income taxes last year. The study also estimates that nearly half of all undocumented immigrants pay income taxes.


http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/04/23/immigrants-taxes-general-electric/

[Autumn]

1. Let's keep them and deport GE.

My stove sucks, can't wait to buy another one.

[Initech]

2. I like this idea.

[doc03]

3. Just how do you pay income taxes when you are

undocumented? If you work a job they withhold income or payroll taxes on your earnings, wouldn't you have to have a SS number? I can understand sales taxes and maybe property tax but income taxes?

[Warren Stupidity]

4. You have a fake ss number and it is withheld from your pay.

There is a huge pile of SS funds that are attributed to pay-ins to bogus ss numbers, mostly from undocumented workers. They can never collect this money so, guess what? Undocumented workers subsidize our retirement.

[Autumn]

5. I used to work at a company and our HR

director helped them get fake SS numbers.