Repug Stupidity on Immigration Costing Kentucky Tens of Millions of Dollars

After Thomas Massie, Bret Guthrie, Andy Barr, Hal Rogers and Ed Whitfield help their House colleagues kill immigration reform, how are they going to make up the financial loss to the Kentuckians they claim to represent?

James Carroll at the Courier:

Calling it “flawed” and “rushed,” House Republican leaders Wednesday snubbed sweeping immigration reform legislation, even as a new study showed that state and local tax revenues in Kentucky and Indiana would increase by nearly $56 million annually if reform passed.

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A study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy offered Obama and other supporters of reform more ammunition: Overall, the 11.2 million undocumented immigrants who would obtain legal work status under a reform system would pay an additional $2 billion a year to states and localities. The nonpartisan institute is a Washington think tank.


In Kentucky, undocumented immigrants pay almost $59 million each year in state and local taxes, but that would go up an additional $23.2 million if those immigrants were given legal status, the report said.

Real immigration reform is "If you get any part of your body over the border and you want to be a citizen, you're a citizen."  That repugs won't accept even the proposed barely-qualifies-for-the-name "reform" is shameful.