US Going Deeper Into The Red Now That The IRS Is Sharing Tax Data With ICE – Above the Law

The
government
needs
more
funding
than
ever,
which
is
kind
of
hilarious
when
you
realize
the
Tea
Party
of
the
Obama
era
was
the
predecessor
of
this
Big
Government
version
of
the
GOP.

The
DHS
can’t
even
get
itself
a
budget
at
the
moment.
Sure,
it
will
get
some
money
thrown
to
it
sooner
or
later
and
the
administration
won’t
let
the
lack
of
tax
revenue
offsets
stop
it
from
feeding
billions
more into
its
Bigotry
Machine.

But
that’s
not
all.
Behold
our all-but-officially-declared
war in
Iran,
currently
headed
by
the
Department
of Defense War Little
Excursion,
which
is
adding
billions
of
dollars
weekly
to
the
national
deficit.
After
all,
as
right-leaning
libertarians
like
to
point
out,
the
government
doesn’t
actually
“make”
anything.
The
private
sector
builds
the
bombs
and
missiles.
And unlike
TSA
agents,
they
expect
to
be
paid.

You
know
who could help
this
country
offset some
of
its
insane
expenditures? It’s
the
same
people we’re
spending
billions
to remove from
the
country:

Immigrants
accounted
for
more
US
income
and
generated
more
revenue
for
the
government
because
they
were,
on
average,
over
12
percentage
points
more
likely
to
be
employed
than
the
US-born
population.
This
means
that
even
if
immigrants
earn
lower hourly wages,
they
can
still
account
for
more
total
income
per
capita
than
the
US-born
population
by
working
cumulatively
more
hours. This
higher
employment
rate
was
driven
by
the
fact
that
immigrants
were,
on
average,
20
percentage
points
more
likely
to
be
of
working
age.
Immigrants
usually
arrive
in
the
US
as
young
adults
and
often
leave
before
retirement.

More
succinctly,
immigrants
out-punch
their
weight
class
when
it
comes
to
erasing
budget
deficits:

Accounting
for
savings
on
interest
payments
on
the
national
debt,
immigrants
saved
$14.5
trillion
in
debt
over
this
30-year
period.

[…]

Without
the
contributions
of
immigrants,
public
debt
at
all
levels
would
already
be
above
200
percent
of
US
GDP—nearly
twice
the
2023
level
and
a
threshold
some
analysts
believe
would
trigger
a
debt
crisis.

But
that
help
is
apparently
no
longer
welcome.
The
Trump
administration
has
succeeded
in eliminating
the
firewall between
the
IRS
and
ICE,
allowing
ICE
agents
to
use
this
data
to hunt
down
taxpayers who
work
harder
and
pay
more
taxes
than
the
white,
natural-born
citizens
that
this
administration
pretends
make
America
great.

That’s
going
to
cause
even
more
problems
for
an
administration
that
is
spending
far
more
liberally
than
any
“liberal”
it
blames
its
current
budget
problems
on. Here’s
how
that
looks
on
the
ground as
Tax
Day
has
come
and
gone
in
the
United
States:

By
the
time
Tax
Day
rolls
around
every
April
15,
accountant
María
José
Solís
usually
has
more
to
do.
More
clients.
More
paperwork.
More
phones
ringing,
more
emails
and
WhatsApp
messages
pinging.

But
this
year,
she
said,
more
than
550
of
her
regular
clients
have
disappeared.
That’s
about
15
percent
of
her
customer
base
at
Toro
Taxes,
the
bilingual
firm
in
Wheaton,
Maryland,
that
Solís
runs.

There’s
your
anecdote,
albeit
one
that’s
being
repeated
around
the
nation.
Here’s
the
data:

The
Yale
Budget
Lab estimates that
the
IRS
stands
to
lose
between
$147
billion
and
$479
billion
over
the
next
decade
as
migration
to
the
U.S.
declines,
deportations
increase
and
immigrants
of
various
statuses
disengage
from
the
formal
economy
for
what
some
experts
say
may
be
an
extended
period.

That
estimate
will
likely
be
low
if
the
Trump
administration
continues
to
purge
migrants
at
the
rate
it
has
since
Trump
returned
to
office.
It
will definitely be
lower
if
another
similarly
bigoted
GOP
lawmaker
succeeds
him
as
president.

And
it’s
not
just
the
losses
up
front.
There’s
money
leaking
out
the
back
as
well.
It’s
a
double-dip,
because
migrants
with
ITINs
(individual
tax
identification
numbers)
pay
taxes
for
services
they
can’t
actually
access,
like
Social
Security
and
Medicare.
They’re
actually
subsidizing
citizens
who
pay
fewer
taxes,
work
fewer
hours,
and commit
more
crimes than
they
do.

This
nation
continues
to
become
poorer,
not
just
in
terms
of
financial
viability,
but
in
heart
and
spirit.
Migrants
made
this
nation
great.
Now,
a
bunch
of
ungrateful
people
who
hate
people
who
aren’t
white
are
not
only
driving
us
deeper
into
debt,
but
they’re
eliminating
a
source
of
income
that
never
asked
for
anything
more
than
a
chance
to
survive.

US
Going
Deeper
Into
The
Red
Now
That
The
IRS
Is
Sharing
Tax
Data
With
ICE

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US Going Deeper Into The Red Now That The IRS Is Sharing Tax Data With ICE – Above the Law