Potential Cost to America
House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. yesterday pointed to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report to criticize an immigration bill that passed the Senate. The CBO report estimated the 10-year cost of that immigration bill at $127 billion.
"We are now just beginning to see a glimpse of the staggering burden on American taxpayers the Reid-Kennedy immigration legislation contains," said Mr. Sensenbrenner, referring to Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, the Democratic leader, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat. Mr. Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican and foe of what he considers amnesty for illegal aliens, did not mention that a number of Republicans also voted for the Senate bill.
"Twenty-four-and-a-half billion dollars for the earned income and child tax credits. Medicaid costs of $11.7 billion. Social Security costs of $5.2 billion. Medicare costs of $3.7 billion. Food stamps costs of $2.4 billion. The list goes on and on. This new social spending -- in the hundreds of billions of dollars later on -- will all be paid for by U.S. taxpayers."
Mr. Sensenbrenner said the report actually underestimates the costs of the Senate bill because the millions of illegal aliens provided amnesty would not become citizens, and thus eligible for all social programs, until after the 10-year time frame reviewed by the CBO.
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08-23-2006, 05:34 AM
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