Migrants pay taxes, and elimination of barriers to migration would let them pay more. A 2016 study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that undocumented immigrants in the United States annually pay over $11.7 billion in state and local taxes. Undocumented immigrants pay on average about 8 percent of their incomes in state and local taxes. The top 1 percent of taxpayers, meanwhile, pay an average effective tax rate of 5.4 percent. In other words, super-rich Americans typically pay a lower percentage of their incomes in taxes than do undocumented migrants.
1% of Jeff Bezos' money is bigger than 1005 of my money. What is your point?
