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Trump’s immigration crackdown could cost up to $479bn in lost taxes over 10 years
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Not to mention state and local governments. One of the dirty little secrets of our economy is that undocumented workers have a significant direct and indirect tax burden, but other than schools (which are for literal children, lest we forget) they're excluded from almost all benefits that require any sort of, well, documents.
So you've got a permanent underclass who are paying into the system but literally aren't allowed to reap all the benefits. Now, on the one hand, I kind of get how that's a devil's bargain they were willing to make to get to the US from countries with more immediate issues, but to argue that they're a drain on the country and need to be hunted down post-haste, and not treated as the human beings they are, that's just evil on so many levels, but one of them is that it upends the economic deal America tacitly made with them by accepting their labor. They literally pay a huge tax to be in the country at all. Even the business owners used to understand that. I assume most of them still do, but none of them will pick this hill to die on.