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Top 5 Reasons Why Immigration Reform Means More Tax Revenues

1) 5 million more workers and their employers would pay payroll taxes

2) Unauthorized immigrants would pay an additional $109 billion in federal, state, and local taxes

3) Reform would add a net $606 billion to the Social Security trust fund

4) Reform would extend the solvency of the Medicare trust fund by four years

5) Reform would reduce the deficit by $820 billion over the next two decades

 

Source:  Center for American Progress

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