On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:11:44 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:22:50 -0500, Vic Smith wrote:

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:52:00 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:04:49 -0500, Vic Smith wrote:


Those Social Security taxes are helping to keep Social Security
afloat. It's estimated illegals account for $50 billion or 10% of the
Social Security surplus.

http://www.reason.org/commentaries/d...20060501.shtml



You have to be joking. I posted a link to an article from Knight Ridder. That's an "BS article from an Un-
American (IMO) right-wing, neocon/Wall Street funded organization?" Oh well, you can read the same
fact I quoted he
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepu...mmigpay10.html

Or he
http://www.immigrationforum.org/Desk...aspx?tabid=724

Oh, and just to clarify, yes, the $57.8 billion you mention above is wages, but that is only for *one* year.
The total Earnings Suspense File is somewhere between $500 and $600 billion. Now, if you take the
roughly 10% devoted to SS, you get the $50 billion in my original post.

Your original link is at the top. That is the original source.
It deceived you into this little argument with its probably
intentional conflating of revenue and wages.
I already recommended that you check your sources and math.
Let me be more clear. Don't believe everything you read on the
internet, no matter how you linked to it.
Even if it's from a boater.
I won't walk you through it, but you can easily find who is behind the
Reason Foundation. You may agree with them. I don't.
As to your new cites, the 2nd is a rehash of the first, which has
nothing to support your claim.
As to your "clarification," you are appling and oranging.
You want to apply multiple year suspense wages against one year of
surplus in order to reach your mythical 10%.
It won't fly, and is blatantly dishonest. I don't think you're
stupid, and I don't know your motives.
But I'm out of this conversation, just because you're starting to ****
me off.

--Vic