You could call the Heritage Foundation's new study of the cost of immigration reform ($6.3 trillion!) dishonest, fraudulent, and downright sickening, but that would miss the mark. The truth is it simply provides convenient way for anyone who touts it to avoid saying "wetback" in public. It is bullshit cover for Jim DeMint's and everyone at the Heritage Foundation's straight up cross-burning, sheet-wearing
racism:
During the ten-year “interim phase” after the bill is passed, in which illegal immigrants would be given legal status but would be ineligible for means-tested welfare programs and Obamacare, the average fiscal deficit for their households would fall to around $12,500 a year because of increased tax payments. Following this initial period, however, government spending would “increase dramatically” — once formerly illegal immigrants become eligible for those programs, average fiscal deficits would rise to about $29,500 per household. During retirement, when former illegal immigrants, now permanent residents or citizens, would be eligible for Social Security and Medicare benefits, the net cost to taxpayers would remain high, at around $22,700 per retiree per year.
Let me translate this for you: DeMint is saying that if undocumented people in this country become
citizens, then by god they'll be eligible for the things that citizens are eligible for! In other words, the goddamn latinos will have the same rights as other citizens! As if somehow that doesn't make complete sense.
Set aside the fact that DeMint smears all immigrants as spending their lives on welfare and then going on to retire on Social Security and Medicare. Even though they do all of the real work that old fucks like him don't have the balls or work ethic to ever do. DeMint is saying even after becoming citizens, those people don't deserve the same rights and benefits as people like him. Namely, old rural conservative white men with extra big arsenals.
You know what? Fuck it. If they cost $6.3 trillion, FINE. I propose that we pay for every dime of their costs by taxing the everloving shit out Jim Fucking DeMint and ever other rich old fuck. And if they don't like it, I suggest they self-deport. Yeah I said it...get the fuck out.