Republican Heirarchy Seeks To Neuter Anti Illegal Members

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Can't help myself, here's a little more of where Republicans have to close ranks with Democrats in California:

Welfare benefits for the children of illegal immigrants
cost America’s largest county more than $600 million last year,
according to a local official keeping tabs on the cost.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich released new
statistics this week showing social spending for those families in his
county rose to $53 million in November, putting the county government on
track to spend more than $600 million on related costs for the year —
up from $570 million in 2009.

Antonovich arrived at the estimate by factoring in the cost of food
stamps and welfare-style benefits through a state program known as
CalWORKS. Combined with public safety costs and health care costs, the
official claimed the “total cost for illegal immigrants to county
taxpayers” was more than $1.6 billion in 2010.

Not including the hundreds of millions of dollars for education,” he said in a statement.

Antonovich’s figures, though, center on costs generated by
American-born children of illegal immigrants.

Isabel Alegria, communications director at the California Immigrant Policy Center, said it’s
“unfair” to roll together costs associated with both illegal immigrants and U.S.-born citizens.

Isabel, the US born citizens referred to are children of illegals, so the two go hand in hand.

Hence the Democratic vote.

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I believe I did it right to arrive at a welfare figure of approximately $162.47 per person in Los Angeles county at an estimated 2009 population figure of 9848011 with a $1600000000.00 cost. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06037.html

Housing units 2009 3,390,795 Approximately $471.87 per household.

The questions to me are:

How may individuals are Taxpayers? Children, welfare recipients, people who work for cash, non working spouses or "household partners" and those running criminal enterprises generally do not pay income taxes.

What is the tax burden of this welfare per tax paying individual in Los Angeles County?

How much money is diverted around sales and other taxes?

Thinking out loud... The welfare cost burden per person divided into household welfare burden figure is 2.9 people per household, and population divided by household comes to 2.9 per household.

Hmmmmm. Somehow, this doesn't sound right.




LA County's 2010 - 2011 budget is 23.175 Billion. http://file.lacounty.gov/lac/cms1_151209.pdf

Of this:

Social Services 24%

Health 22%

Public protection 20%

Special funds / district 23%

Other 11%


LA County's income / Resources 23.175 Billion

Property taxes 20%

Federal assistance 22%

State assistance 22%

Other 36%


1.6 billion for direct welfare costs according to Antonovich equals almost 7% of the total budget.

Per household share of both budget and resources equals $6834.68.

Locally generated revenue is only $6.034 Billion, less than 27% of the budget.

Social services and health alone are 64% of the budget.

WOW.

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2008 Los Angeles county demographics

As of: January 1, 2008[16]

* Total population: 10,363,850, or about 27% of California's population. The county population increased 8.1% between 2000 and 2008.

Non Hispanic Persons: 52.7%

* White: 29.2%
* African American: 9.6%
* Asian: 13.1%
* Other: 0.90%
* Hispanic or Latino: 47.3%



Other Statistics

* Male Residents: 49.4%
* Female Residents: 50.6%
* Residents Aged under 18: 27.6%
* Residents Aged between 19 and 64: 62.3%
* Residents Aged above 65: 10.1%

* Foreign born: 36.2% (a majority born in Mexico)
* Poverty Level: 17.7%