KyBorn1930

I am a tax accountant with 20 years of accounting experience. My statements and analysis are always based upon accounting costs to provide governmental benefits or tax revenue exemptions to six classes of people:
1. adult Americans and their children (entitlements)

2. foreign Legal Permanent Residents and their children
3. foreign guest workers and their children
4. foreign undocumented residents and their children
5. foreign non-residents
6. incarcerated LPRs, guest workers & undocumented persons :thumbdown: :?:

KyBorn1930

Let's begin with item #6. What are the costs to incarcerate foreigners?
These are the cost catergories:
Department of justice costs at the federal, state and local levels
Public defender costs
T***sportation costs to distant jails or prisons
Feeding prisoners costs
Jailkeepers' costs (salaries, employer taxes, fringe benefits, health care & pensions)
Inmate medical costs
Bedding and clothing costs
Jail and prison utilities
Consulars for inmates
Supervison of vistors costs
State costs to administer prisons [at a state capital bldg]
Legal representation in suits against the prison authorities
Costs to cover injuries to inmates during incarceration
Costs to build courts (proportionate), prisons and jails
Costs to furnish prisons and jails
Costs to provide guns and ammunition to guards
Costs to train guards in handling inmates and to provide training

Can you add to my list?

KyBorn1930

Do you believe now that it is very expensive to permit alien criminals to enter our country? Just for the sake of argument: 0.1% of aliens become criminals requiring even one day in jail... then what is 0.1% of 15,000,000 aliens who will be granted amnesty? Isn't that 150,000? if they average each 100 days in jail that equals 15,000,000 jail-days. If they are allocated the above costs averaging $300 per day that would cost Americans $4,500,000,000 which is $4.5 billion over let's say 10 years.

My point is similar to taking a vacation which costs $4500... would you pay for it in cash or put it on your credit card.

If Congress grants amnesty and residency to 15 million aliens then Congress should raise taxes at least by $450 million per year before granting amnesty just to cover expected justice and incarceration costs alone. Not after granting Amnesty... but before (just like paying for your vacation prior to leaving home).

More postings will be made to cover other costs for just item # 6 above.

So, reader, am I wrong?

MannyB

Numbers don't lie. And only fools and people that don't want to see can be blind to these facts.

KyBorn1930

In that most incarcerations are within the states the majority of the additional cost to incarceate will fall upon the shoulders of state treasuries. The great majority of immigrants immigrate to 10 or 11 states. Meaning that those states bear the majority of incarceration costs. Let's assume that the federal government pays for federal incarcerations at the rate of 10% then the states would pay 90% of the $450 million per year/ or $405 million. Now the states would be required to raise those amount immediately because all states operate on a balanced tax receipts/tax expenditure basis. There are generally four types of income to a state: (1) income tax; (2) sales tax; (3) property tax; and (4) fees [like DMV]. Each state would need to raise one or more of these taxes OR take money from education or parks, etc.