New study shows workers "often pay taxes that are dedicated to funding programs from which they are barred from participating because of their immigration status."
At the state and local levels, slightly less than half (46 percent, or $15.1 billion) of the tax payments made by undocumented immigrants are through sales and excise taxes levied on their purchases. Most other payments are made through property taxes, such as those levied on homeowners and renters (31 percent, or $10.4 billion), or through personal and business income taxes (21 percent, or $7.0 billion).
This isn’t really showing much except that sales taxes are extremely regressive, which is already a well-known fact that people don’t pay nearly enough attention to.
You are completely correct; what it’s doing is not presenting new ideas so much as pushing back against the narrative of the freeloading immigrant, which is only supported by cherry-picking what taxes “count” as taxes and ignoring the regressive taxes that you, appropriately, note that most people don’t think of when they say “taxes”.
Note that this does not apply to federal taxes.
This isn’t really showing much except that sales taxes are extremely regressive, which is already a well-known fact that people don’t pay nearly enough attention to.
You are completely correct; what it’s doing is not presenting new ideas so much as pushing back against the narrative of the freeloading immigrant, which is only supported by cherry-picking what taxes “count” as taxes and ignoring the regressive taxes that you, appropriately, note that most people don’t think of when they say “taxes”.
sales taxes would be fine if they were national and not restricted on things bought sold. Like stocks and bonds and such.