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A new Cato Institute study finds that over the past 30 years, immigrants into the US, both those entering legally and those without documentation, have created government budget surpluses every single year.
www.cato.org

The government first began gathering detailed information on benefits use by citizenship status in 1994. The data show:

For each year from 1994 to 2023, the US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government.
Over that period, immigrants created a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion in real 2024 US dollars, including $3.9 trillion in savings on interest on the debt.
Without immigrants, US government public debt at all levels would be at least 205 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)"nearly twice its 2023 level.

Anyone paying less in taxes with the higher standard deduction this year?

Any family with more than one child had higher taxable income with the loss of personal exemptions.

www.merceradvisors.com

Project Std Ded if TCJA expired MFJ $16,600
Projected Personal Exemption if TCJA expired $5,300 each

Family of four $16,600 + $5300x4 = $37,800
Big -------- Bill $32,200

Taxable income higher by $5,600

The more dependents, the worse it got.

"Experts say it will fundamentally alter the civil and legal reality of the territory, removing what the Israeli ministers termed "legal obstacles" that have existed for decades against the expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied territories.

The Palestinian presidency called the decision "dangerous" and an "open Israeli attempt to legalize settlement expansion" and land confiscation. President Mahmoud Abbas's office called on the United States and the United Nations Security Council to intervene immediately.

On Monday, eight Muslim-majority countries denounced Israel for trying to impose "unlawful Israeli sovereignty" in the occupied West Bank."

~snip~

Israel, condemned as a Pariah nation and Rogue state because of its genocidal campaign in Gaza which killed nearly 72,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, has been rightfully cited as the main source of instability in the Middle East. Israel is pushing the nefarious Trumpf junta to attack Iran on its behalf, but the Kremlin won't be pleased with their strategic economic partner being attacked.

Source: Responsible Statecraft

International arrest warrants for crimes against humanity issued by the ICC remain active for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former IDF General Yoav Gallan. In addition, the Istanbul Public Prosecutor in Turkiye issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and 30 other suspected Israeli war criminals.

Indictments are merely allegations. To ensure a fair trial, Messrs Netanyahu and Gallant must all be presumed innocent until they are proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt at an international tribunal to be held for them in the Hague at future dates.

For Palestinians in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, it makes no difference whatsoever which political party is in the White House or who controls Congress, whether it's the Republicans or the Democrats. The hardworking American taxpayer will continue to subsidize ethnic cleansing in Israel year in and year out. Gosh, why is the US hated so much by the people in the Middle East?

Hi Snoofy:

Thanks for that info.

I was monitoring that event wondering if this was a coincidence or if it was related to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Virginia Giuffre (and others) testified about potential threats against the victims and their families as well.

In her book Nobody's Girl and her TV interviews, Virginia keeps asking the same question: How did those two fiends get away with this nefarious enterprise for so long?

In her book she writes that Epstein warned her that he "owns the Palm Beach police department."

She also knew that blackmail and extortion were somehow involved because she discovered two secret cameras hidden in clocks.

Virginia made her three children watch whatever interviews she conducted so that they would be aware of what happened to her and for them to get stronger from it.

Also note that Virginia didn't age well. Years of alcohol, Xanax, and PTSD wore her out. She was also in an accident which injured her neck.

Virginia was slandered for taking settlement money from a lawsuit she filed, but her husband and her became broke because of Epstein and Maxwell and she needed the money for her family's survival. This was also the only measure of justice she could get back then.

Also, Virginia realized that it was her father who "sold" Virginia into sexual slavery.

This miscreant had abused her when she was a child and he let his friend abuse her too while her mother looked away.

This was all before she reached puberty.

Virginia's father worked at Dummkopf Trumpf's golf resort and got her the job there in the locker room when Virginia was 17 years old or so.

Shortly afterwards, Ghislaine Maxwell approached Virginia and convinced her to work for Epstein who would train Virginia, a high school dropout, with a trade: professional masseuse. She jumped at the opportunity unaware of what was going to happen to her.

Virginia had no chance to enjoy her childhood and she committed suicide last year.

Virginia monitored the "Me Too" movement with fascination and realized how powerful men used women as disposable items.

Should Ghislaine Maxwell be pardoned by Dummkopf Trumpf, authorities in Florida and New York must immediately seek warrants for her arrest before she has the chance to flee to Israel and the statute of limitations expire. "G-Max" also has a French passport, but she would find no refuge there. Israel rarely extradites their own citizens and if she was a Mossad asset, Tel Aviv would certainly protect her, like American traitor Jonathan Pollard.



USSECSTATE Marco Rubio was personally vetted for his position by none other than mega oligarch Larry Ellison, a close friend of ICC-indicted war criminal Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu, based on Rubio's loyalty to Israel. This seems to be the most important qualification for America's top diplomat to possess in the incompetent Trumpf junta. Link: Marco Rubio More Loyal to Israel Over American Taxpayers

Besides callously dismantling USAID in 2025, as a Republican Senator from Florida, Marco Rubella undermined the ACA ("Obamacare") by subtly adding corrosive riders to the bill in 2015.

Note all of the problems poor Americans are now facing with the BBB and lack of subsidies to pay for them.

Everybody at the 2026 Munich Security Conference, and on the planet for that matter, knows that the vapid, imagination-less Marco Rubio is merely an Empty Suit come to waste everyone's time in Germany, as well as hardworking American taxpayer dollars.

@#2 ... fighting for political survival. ...

Speaking of political survival ...

Podcast: Starmer survives -- but for how long?
www.theguardian.com

... On Monday morning, the prime minister was preparing to reset relations with MPs after the resignation of his chief aide, Morgan McSweeney.

Just before midday, news broke that Tim Allen, Keir Starmer's director of communications, had resigned. By lunchtime, it emerged that Anas Sarwar, Labour's leader in Scotland, was preparing to hold a press conference calling on Starmer to stand down. ...


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