Thread by @17cShyteposter

Immigrants paid $238 in federal, state, and local taxes in 2014? That's interesting, because those total tax revenues were $5 trillion

Despite making up 13% of the 2014 population, immigrants contributed just 4.8% of the tax base

Yang continues to DESTROY mass migration!

https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1163457346418425856

"The average immigrant contributes just 37% as much in taxes as native citizens while consuming 170% as much welfare. How dare you SCAPEGOAT them for your lowered standard of living?"

This, meanwhile, has to be one of the single stupidest arguments I've ever seen

The *national* crime rate was much lower in 2016 than 1980. Unless these 10 places imported a million Japanese people, immigration isn't the reason their crime rates dropped

The truly infuriating thing is how easy it is to look these figures up and compare them to the claims actually being made.

Over and over, the only question is whether our elites are just this stupid, or if they actually hate us.

Either answer is a disaster.

lol wait, actual numbers are even worse. Immigrants (13% of the pop) paid $238 billion. Native citizens (87%) thus paid $4.76 trillion.

Directly comparing the two tax groups, the average immigrant contributed just 29% what the average native citizen did.

If Yang's figure is right, this is shocking even to me lmao

This should be a national scandal, instead it's only going to be seen by a few hundred people on Twitter

Worse: instead, this horrific financial outcome is being used *to push for more mass migration*