-- Received $4.3 billion in state services
-- Paid $739 million in state taxes
-- Received about $3.6 billion more than they paid in taxes.
"K-12 education is the largest state expenditure, accounting for 40 percent of the budget, Rubenstein said. "Enrollments have increased dramatically since 1994, swelled primarily by Hispanic immigrants and their U.S.-born children. Consider this: between 1994 and 2005 California K-12 enrollment grew by 1,054,806; Hispanic student enrollment rose by 1,009,489, accounting for 96 percent of the total increase. White enrollment declined by 246,220 students over the same period. (See article.)
California Is Our Canary
"Unfortunately, the same social pathologies that attend the foreign-born in California travel to other U.S. destinations, said Rubenstein. "In every instance immigrants are, on average, poorer than natives, more dependent on public largesse, more likely to require remedial education, less likely to finish high school, and more likely to evade taxation and to be incarcerated. Throughout the nation native-born citizens are digging ever deeper into their pockets to subsidize public services for immigrants.
Interesting to see what happens with the projected 70 million new immigrants to be added within 26 years at current immigration rates!
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