"Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year."

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"Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year."
María Teresa Kumar on Sunday, October 2nd, 2016 in an interview on "Meet the Press"

How much do undocumented immigrants pay in taxes?

By Linda Qiu on Sunday, October 2nd, 2016 at 5:12 p.m.

Donald Trump may not have paid federal income taxes for 20 years, but the undocumented immigrants he rails against certainly have, according to the head of a Latino civic engagement organization.

Maria Teresa Kumar, CEO and president of Voto Latino, said on NBC’s Meet the Press that "no one is surprised" by the New York Times report on Trump’s personal finances and pointed out Trump’s "hypocrisy."

"He keeps talking about undocumented immigrants. Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year. They pay their taxes. They have skin in the game. He is not contributing to a system that he says he's going to go in and fix," Kumar said.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/oct/02/maria-teresa-kumar/how-much-do-undocumented-immigrants-pay-taxes/

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1. Most pay social security and Medicare tax that never benefits them

Most undocumented work on the books, using incorrect social security numbers. This 15.3% of their wages will not be paid back to them as social security and Medicare benefits. Economists say both halves of this tax are paid by employees even tho half is transmitted by employers. About 13 billion per year. They also pay sales tax, property tax via rent, gas tax etc. The social security admin thinks more than 75% work "on the books" with an incorrect social security number.

13 billion tax on their income while Trump pays zero tax on his income.

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3. "13 billion tax on their income while Trump pays zero tax on his income."

And the cheeto POS has the balls to tell Americans that these actual taxpayers are bad for the country while snake oil scam artists like himself are laughing all the way to the bank paying ZERO taxes on his billions!

How damn dumb is the American public anyway? Is there a bottom to the stupidity? Have we FINALLY reached it yet??

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2. Trump thinks they are stupid. (nt)