Child tax credit for illegal workers

[Ban Hammer 13,554]

Okay, how is the cost to benefit ratio any different for documented vs. undocumented workers?

California ranked 46th in per pupil spending in 2006-07

What you're really arguing is that kids in general cost the state to educate, but the logic behind that is that those students will grow up to be working adults and paying into the system. It's no different from the fact that you and I are paying for retirees right now with idea that by the time we retire, our children will be paying for ours. Trying to single out undocumented workers as having a different cost to benefit ratio from USC or permanent residents has no logic. If you are trying to say that they add to a population and that California's economic problems have to do with too many people in the state, that doesn't hold water either. Prior to the Recession, California's economy was something like the 5th largest in the world. It didn't get that way from trying enforce population controls. Undocumented workers are part of that economy and have been for a long time.

unless, of course, they are illegal, then they have very little to contribute and it's just a big hole in the ground taxpayers throw money into.