Josh Gay

And we know that a smaller workforce means less tax revenue.

And we know that undocumented immigrants, they are paying taxes and they're not getting benefits.

And with all that lost tax revenue, you have higher per capita costs and a greater reliance on the United States to take on more debt.

So, yeah, Stephen Miller's dream would crush our U.S.

economy.

And there's another figure that I found surprising in this whole thing.

Over their lifetimes, immigrants individually paid almost or approximately $130,000 more in taxes than

than the average U.S.-born resident.

$130,000 more in taxes than the average U.S.-born resident.

And that includes your federal, your state, your local, all taxes across everything.

And it reflects this long-term participation that we've had of immigrants in our labor force.

It goes through the consumption taxes, the payroll taxes, all of it.

So yeah, we see the talking point.

We see the right saying everything from houses to benefits to entitlements, all of it, is that immigrants burden our governments.

And they are.

They're specifically saying, and immigrants aren't, but the right is saying that the burden is specifically on your state and local government.

So let's look a little bit more at those numbers, the state and local level.

In that 30-year period, 94 to 2023, immigrants paid $9.6 trillion in state and local taxes.

And state and local spending was $4.7 trillion.

Net surplus, $6.6 trillion over the whole thing, all numbers put together.