If illegal aliens pay taxes do their taxes cover all the free medical care they get for free?
953434
My taxes more than cover what I use in health care ... but I STILL have to pay through my medical insurance ... and what the insurance doesn't cover, I have to fork out from my own pocket ... Even IF the illegals pay taxes ... their taxes won't cover their medical expenses ...  they don't have to pay, but I do ... great order of things, isn't it, when tax paying Americans don't benefit at all, and illegals do ... where's the Government OF the people FOR the people??  Unless of course they mean for the "illegal people" ....
614556
from what i understand they pay much higher taxes and get their school and medical for free.  if that's true, i would be willing to up my tax bill!
69273
No, it is not true. All citizens of the United States are obliged to pay taxes. However, the Amish do not collect Social Security, unemployment, or welfare benefits, and through an arrangement with the IRS do not pay Social Security Insurance. They still pay income, property, and sales tax.
385157
Yes, and since the health care is free, we need a few other things to be free as well.  For instance, doctors and nurses should work for free.  Medicine should be free as well as anything that the drug companies need to do the research to make new durgs.  Construction companies should build the hospitals for free, since we can't have surgeries done outside.  Electric companies should provide free electricity to power the hospitals that are free to build.  Since the doctors, nurses, drugs companies, construction companies, and electric companies and all associated employees are working for free, I'll assume that they all need free housing, food, etc. to make that all work.  Ya know, now that I think about it, everything should be free.  Yep, that would fix it, make everything free.
455867
I am amazed by the ignorance in the responses in this thread.\n\nThe only taxes illegals pay is sales tax, assuming they purchase goods here.  Some of them pay an income tax with a fake social security number, but you should research their reasoning behind doing that before giving them a pat on the back.  If it cost them anything by using a fake SSN, they wouldn't do it.  Chew on that. \n\nThe lower price I might pay for strawberries and a trimmed lawn is peanuts compared to the taxes I pay to put illegals' kids through school, provide them meals, pay their hospital bills, and paying to keep a large majority of them in prison.  This is causing my state (California) to go bankrupt.  The burden illegals place on the economy is FAR greater than anything they may provide to aid the economy.\n\nThe government needs to ENFORCE its laws in an effort to alleviate the problem.
1126310
Not all aliens are illegal.  People who follow the rules for entering the country are legal.  They do this by getting visas, becoming citizens, etc.  It is the people who do not have permission to come to this country that are called illegals.  They therefore are not following the law and do not pay taxes, but still benefit from the many things our country has to offer.  Basically you are welcome to come to this country, but you just have to do your paperwork.
215527
For all you ignorant people sayin that illegal immigrants dont pay taxes and all.. let me tell you something... they do pay taxes! whenever they go to the store, when they get their paycheck they get a tax cut too and they do support the US ecconomy and they do all the dirty work that all you lazy but  wont do!!!\nthey are not criminals they should not be treated like that\nthey are just people tryin to make a better living tryin to provide their families with a better future!!! is that illegal?   that goes to all you ignorant people!!!
892757
You sound like an illegal alien, or doing this for an illegal alien. It's the "free of charge" that got my attention. Free of charge to you, but paid for by your friendly American taxpayer.
501347
Because the money to pay the doctors, hospital, labs, etc. has to come from somewhere.  If insurance was free, where would the insurance companies get the money to pay all those bills for our visits or hospitalizations?
418167
I think the questioner was simply trying to get us to think about how much we pay out each year to have medical insurance, and car insurance, and whatever other kind of insurance because we are responsible citizens, while illegal aliens by their very illegal status don't have any insurance, and WE the tax paying, insurance holding citizens MUST pay for them when they use any " free" health service. Yes it's free to them, but it's we the legal tax payers who end up paying for it.
494032
as a former caseworker YES they do. Let me break it down, the federal government has a program called TANF which gives a monthly stipend to people on welfare as long as they participate in training or some form of education. It is received for a limited time depending on the state. If you dont participate, you don't get a check. Illegal immigrant mothers can receive the money only for their children and they are not required to do anything for this monthly stipend. Its free money for them, same thing with food stamps which many illegal immigrants get also, the welfare application even states that their information will not be shared with the department of homeland security.
1073739
The COST to legal taxpayers is ENOURMOUS!  MOST Illegals do not pay their hospital bills,and the COST gets passed on to taxpayers in the form of HIGHER rates for OUR medical services!!  MILLIONS of illegals come here,have their "anchor babies",which allows the whole BUNCH to stay in the U.S. (just because they had the kid on U.S. soil),  they NEVER pay the hospital,doctor,etc. so the hospitals LOSE millions a year, and they pass the REST of the cost,on to US!!! You can look on line under Copper Queen hospital,it will bring up an article of how illegals USE our system to get services,then NEVER pay!! \n\nAlso,illegals use STOLEN and FAKE i.d.'s to work! My friend had his social security number STOLEN and used by an illegal. He has had a HORRIBLE time trying to get this straightened out just with the IRS!!! The IRS,wanted HIM to pay back taxes on the money earned by the ILLEGAL while using the stolen number! I heard on the news about a month ago,that at one plant, there were about THIRTY illegals using the SAME social security number to work!!!!\nThen we have the other social services received by ILLEGALS that the TAXPAYERS pay for!!! There is food stamps,WIC,AFDC, and  special education programs for  ILLEGALS kids,free lunches at school for illegals kids! AND, until a couple of years ago when Arizona passed  prop200, ILLEGALS were even given LOW-INCOME housing, because they were considered migrant workers!!! \n\nIllegals EXPOSE us to many diseases that we have NO cure for! At least,if they come here LEGALLY,they have a background check run (there are OVER a million violent crimes committed by illegals every year!) AND,they are screened for any communicable diseases!!! Some illegals that come here.are coughing up bloody t.b.!!! My friend works in a prison,and they had an illegal in there who had t.b.,and the illegal told my friend,that he worked for Tyson chicken!!! Do YOU want somone like THAT coughing up bloody t.b. or anything like THAT on YOUR food???\nThen,we have all the illegals and the coyotes,whi put ALL our lives in danger,with their shootout,and the accidents caused by them RUNNUNG from authorities! Not to mention the drugs,gangs,trash,etc!!\n\nI live in a border state,and i have SEEN IT ALL!!!! I could tell you MORE,but it would take all day!!
397657
No. Employing undocumented aliens is illegal, so if you deduct those costs it's called tax fraud.
1050014
Employers are supposed to withhold taxes from employees if there is a certain amount paid out, and are supposed to pay their own share.\n\nHowever, even when the poor  pay all applicable taxes, they are still subsidized, particularly in education and health care, by the middle class and wealthier taxpayers.  That is why poor immigrant numbers are limited to all countries where services are subsidized.  That is why coming in above the legal rate of immigration is stealing education and health care from our citizens.\n\nThe real facts are available including what illegals pay in to the system.  This is not a novel point, although it is a valid off-set.  Look it up through your browser.
445316
Definitely not.  Nothing in life is free.  Canada's system is not free.  They pay for it with less than state of the art health care, and with higher taxes.  Let's look at what happens.  In Canada, the state dictates how many doctors there will be based on a budget, that is, how many tax dollars that can be spent on it.  They also dictate how much money the doctor will make on any given operation.  If you need an operation and there is a doctor available, you will get it, but chances are, in Canada you will have to go on a waiting list to get it.  You may well die, or suffer other problems waiting for the doctor.  Also, since the state is in control, and not the market, the doctor may not be the best at what he does.  Now let's look at what happens in the United States of America:  A young medical student happens to have a passion for heart surgery.  He has the talent and the knowledge.  He gets a bunch of student loans, and gets his education complete.  He becomes the very best at this specialty, and subsequently charges a lot for it.  He makes a lot of money doing what he loves, and the public pays it because they want the best heart surgeon available when it comes cutting time.  This kid may have elected to go into computers instead of medicine in Canada, because it pays more.  Also, you don't have to wait for a doctor, because the market balances out the supply of medical care with the demand far more efficiently than any government official could.   Please read Ecconomics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt for more insight into supply and demand and the natural, efficient way of regulating ecconomy.  Please also, ask Canadian medical patients who come to America for medical care what they think ?
542912
PANCHA - Que?  No Drain?  Es Su Loco??  These illegals do not pay taxes, yet they take free services such as indigent care from the hospitals, etc....THAT IS WHAT IS CALLED A DRAIN.\n\nThey also take money they earn and send it to mexico.....THAT IS A DRAIN!  \n\nWhy not think with your head instead of your heart.
453928
If you go to the local health department they will treat you regardless as to whether or not you are a citizen of this country or not.\n\nI think the biggest thing is not about taxes its about them being here "illegally"...if they are working they should get work visas.