"Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs." ----Marco Rubio
The Daily Caller has an article which headlines "Alabama official says tough immigration law leading to ‘self-deportation’," but within the article is the most important piece of information.
On Monday, for example, the Wayne Farms chicken-processing plant in Marshall County held a jobs fair to fill slots that opened when many Hispanic workers left the county. The line “was probably equivalent to a couple of blocks … It was a largely Anglo and black group,” but also included Hispanics, said Ellis.
Now imagine what kind of job growth this would add up to if counties and states did not have to be the ones passing special laws because the Government actually enforced the federal laws already in place?
Oh wait a minute, we don't have to imagine anything. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has already given us a hint.
Full Employment Would Reduce Deficit By A Third
"I asked CBO to estimate the size of the deficit if the economy were at full employment, and CBO's response confirms that our weak economy is the major contributing factor, accounting for over one third of the projected deficit for fiscal year 2012," Van Hollen said in a statement last night. "It's clear that the fastest and most effective ways to reduce the short term deficit is to put Americans back to work."
Here's how CBO puts it. Under full employment, "the projected federal deficit under current law in fiscal year 2012 would be about a third lower, or roughly $630 billion instead of the $973 billion projected in CBO's most recent baseline. That deficit would be equal to about 4.0 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), compared with the 6.2 percent deficit projected for 2012 in CBO's baseline.
Yes, instead of the deliberate stoking of class war by Barack Obama and Democrats, the Obama administration could start enforcing it's own laws, penalize sanctuary cities that protect criminals that are here in the country illegally and put those here legally to work by taking jobs now held by illegals and opening them up for legitimate workers.
Since it has been found by The Center for Immigration Studies that 71 percent of illegal immigrants are receiving welfare benefits, enforcement of immigration laws would also by our government would also reduce our deficit by those funds being provided to illegal aliens.
There is your additional revenue, there is your job growth.
All of which would help the economy.
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