Chris Gibson Says 'Illegal' Not Paying Taxes, Town Hall Attendee Asks: 'You Mean Like GE?'

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http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/25/chris-gibson-ge-taxes/
For the record, undocumented immigrants do actually pay a lot of taxes. As Wonk Room guest blogger Mike Elk notes, a “new study by the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy shows that undocumented immigrants paid $8.4 billion in sales taxes, $1.6 billion in property taxes, and $1.2 billion in personal income taxes last year.” Additionally, a study by the National Council of La Raza last year found that “undocumented immigrants in the United States will pay, on average, approximately $80,000 more in taxes per capita than they use in government services.” Meanwhile, some of the nation’s biggest corporations like Boeing and Bank of America are paying nothing in federal corporate income taxes. (h/t: blindbuck YouTube account)