Accounting

Totally apart from overcrowding of schools and hospitals, what is the dollar cost?

“Conservative Heritage Foundation President Robert Rector estimates the total cost of the bill to be in the trillions of dollars, warning, “This $2.5 trillion cost is going to come smashing into the Social Security and Medicare systems at exactly the point those systems are already going bankrupt. So the bottom line is that these individuals will make no net contribution in taxes while they are working. They will be a deficit. But when they hit retirement, they will be an astonishing cost on the taxpayer.”….

The price tag for this bill is expected to be extremely high, but sources told FOX News that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office will not have an estimate ready until after Memorial Day, something that could fracture the bill’s already fragile support.
The Heritage Foundation’s Rector warned that CBO will give only a 10-year estimate, “but on year 15, it starts to cost a fortune. On year 30, it will bankrupt the Social Security system. It is a disaster, it’s a sham, and it’s a deception.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,274607,00.html

What do you think of that opinion?
wendy o I have seen the Heritage study. When they speak of a cost in Trillions, they are ALREADY taking taxes paid by the newly legalized immigrants into account.
Alberto, you and I could craft a bill, I bet. Why on earth did the amnesty types choose the big business slave labor types to craft a compromise with rather than the border security populists? Our needs are simple and relatively painless, I should think.