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https://apnews.com/article/austria-stabbings-4913f6921c6f27e6d7fd8590da85cc9f

The point being that while the amount isn't quite as much, Democrats also take money from pharma.

$15,158,936 Total from Pharmaceuticals/Health Products PACs to candidates, 2023-2024 $6,686,676 To Democrats $8,407,460 To Republicans 115 Number of PACs

The Cost of Illegal Immigration to Taxpayers Prepared Testimony of Steven A. Camarota Director of Research Center for Immigration Studies For Immigration integrity, security, and enforcement subcommittee of the house judiciary committee Hearing entitled “the impact of illegal immigration on social services Thursday, January 11, 2024 Key Points • The current surge of illegal immigration is unprecedented. Some 2.7 million inadmissible aliens have been released into the country by the administration since January 2021. There have also been 1.5 million “got-aways” — individuals observed entering illegally but not stopped. Visa overstays also seem to have hit a record in FY 2022. • We preliminarily estimate that the illegal immigrant population grew to 12.8 million by October of 2023, up 2.6 million since January 2021, when the president took office. This is the net increase in the illegal population based on monthly Census Bureau data, not the number of new arrivals. • Illegal immigrants have a negative fiscal impact -- taxes paid minus benefits received -- primarily because a large share have modest levels of education, resulting in relatively low average incomes and tax payments, along with significant use of means-tested programs and other government services. • Using the National Academies’ estimate of immigrants’ net fiscal impact by education level, we estimate that the lifetime fiscal drain (taxes paid minus costs) for each illegal immigrant is about $68,000, although this estimate comes with some caveats. • Illegal immigrants make extensive use of welfare. Based on government data, we estimate that 59 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants use one or more major welfare programs, compared to 39 percent of households headed by the U.S.-born. • Based on their use rate of major welfare programs, we estimate that illegal immigrants receive $42 billion in benefits, or about 4 percent of the total cost of the cash, Medicaid, food and housing programs examined in our study. However, this is only a rough approximation due to limitations in the data. • Illegal immigrants can receive welfare on behalf of U.S.-born children. Also, illegal immigrant children can receive school lunch/breakfast and WIC directly. A number of states provide Medicaid to some illegal immigrants, and a few provide SNAP. Several million illegal immigrants also have work authorization (e.g. DACA, TPS and some asylum applicants), allowing receipt of the EITC. • The high welfare use of illegal immigrant households is not explained by an unwillingness to work. In fact, 94 percent of illegal immigrant households have at least one worker, compared to only 73 percent of U.S.-born households. But the nation’s welfare system is design to help low-wage workers with children, which describes a very large share of illegal immigrant households. • In addition to consuming welfare, illegal immigration makes significant use of public education. Based on average costs per student, the estimated 4 million children of illegal immigrants in public schools created $68.1 billion in costs in 2019. The vast majority of these children are U.S.-born. • Use of emergency medical services is another area in which illegal immigrants create significant fiscal costs. Prior research indicates that there are 5.8 million uninsured illegal immigrants in the country in 2019, accounting for a little over one-fifth of the total population without health insurance. The costs of providing care to them likely totals some $7 billion annually. • Illegal immigrants do pay some taxes. We estimate that illegal immigrants in 2019 paid roughly $5.9 billion in federal income tax, $16.2 billion in Social Security tax and $3.8 billion in Medicaid taxes. However, as the net fiscal drain of $68,000 per person cited above indicates, these taxes are not nearly enough to cover the cost of the services they receive. • Illegal immigrants do add perhaps $321 billion to the nation’s GDP, but this is not a measure of their tax contributions or the benefits they create for the U.S.-born. Almost all the increase in economic activity goes to the illegal immigrants themselves in the form of wages. I only read about 1/8 of this report, so it might be mentioned later, but something that wasn't covered is the cost absorbed by US citizens for those that are criminal types. https://budget.house.gov/imo/media/doc/the_cost_of_illegal_immigration_to_taxpayers.pdf

I'm retired, so whenever I see a stretch of weather like that coming up, I buy everything else I need in advance. I'll be heading to the grocery store in about 20 minutes. I feel for those that have to go out in that every morning this coming week. It's amazing what the body can adapt to. On Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday this week, the highest temperature was probably about 10°......... today it got up to 25° and it felt warm.

Ross Stores is doing great, Kohl's is teetering on the edge. Down 75% over the past 5 years. I do a lot of shopping online, but it's mostly for household items like TP, toothpaste, laundry detergent, shampoo, body wash, glass cleaner, etc. Try to make one big order every spring, enough for a year. That way I don't have to go out shopping for those things in the winter. The forecast lows for Sunday through Wednesday are -15° -20° -13° -11°

We had 2 in Mankato Minnesota. The Downtown Mall & Madison East. The downtown mall included theaters and was mostly small department/boutique stores. Madison East was anchored by Sears on one side & Woolworths on the other. I think the downtown mall still has a theater, but is a shell of his former self. ME is 90% healthcare related businesses now. I miss them. Whenever the subject of malls comes up, I always think of Dawn Of The Dead Walmart bought the Monroeville Mall in Pennsylvania for $34 million in February 2025. The mall is best known as the filming location for the 1978 movie Dawn of the Dead. Walmart plans to redevelop the mall into a retail & commercial destination.

“Give a man a fish & he will eat for a day, deport him, & you do not have to feed him again. Trump 20:16

I'll check it out this weekend. Thanks!

Now that's priceless. In Minnesota, estimates say that around 20% of people drive without insurance. Since 2023, undocumented immigrants in Minnesota have been able to get drivers' licenses. Early in 2023, I contacted my insurance agent and asked him the following. Now that illegals can get drivers licenses, and therefore purchase insurance, can I expect the amount I have to pay for underinsured/uninsured drivers every six months to drop ? Of course he couldn't answer the question, but I can tell you the amount has continued to increase. Similar to the lies we were told regarding renewable energy. You'll not only be saving the planet, rates will be lower. Those have continued to go up as well.

The name sounded familiar, but I couldn't remember why until you posted..... "Imagine having to take the (No.) 7 train to (Shea Stadium) looking like you're (in) Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing. "The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners," the 25-year-old Georgia native said. "You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?"

Tesla continues to get slaughtered. Down over $60 since the post above this one. I'm afraid it could easily fall another $50 Yahoo finance has been my homepage since 1998. Always enjoyed commenting on Stocks, ETFs, etc. that I held, or was interested in. Now, there's a 50-50 chance that a seemingly civil comment like "didn't realize Teslas sales in China we're down that much last quarter, thanks" will be rejected ? It's almost as if Yahoo is trying to drive people away. If the comment problems weren't bad enough, the site has become excruciatingly slow. Any suggestions on other investing sites that allow comments ?

Wish I could add something, but I quit paying attention once the Vikings are out of it.

The Redskins should be a little higher on the list. As for the Vikings, this coming season will be #64 & they still haven't won, & haven't even been in one since 1977 That either means they're due, or cursed. I'll go with the latter.

Definitely. I was hinting @ that when I said he's the type of person that you'd try to avoid on the street.

I have a gut feeling he's far worse than that. A deeply disturbed individual. The type of person that if you saw them walking towards you on a sidewalk, you'd cross the street to get on the other side. Possibly sexually abused as well. Most likely by a Catholic, which might explain his hatred for them. End of profiling.

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But he has a communications degree ?

He's super duper nailed it @ 3:32. A couple years ago, some guy was bragging about how he could open his garage door via his iPhone. Apparently, this is a huge improvement over the way myself and others do it. Pull into the driveway, extend right arm up & to the right, & push the garage door opener button. Only if you let them. This season, Minnesota twins broadcasts are moving to a subscription service. They won't get a squirt of !@#$ from me. The twins, along with the Vikings & the wild, are also going to be seeking help from the Legislature (taxpayers) either this year, or in the near future. https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-pro-sports-teams-facing-vast-stadium-ballpark-and-arena-needs/601218820

This + the fact that when I started in 2005, skill, or should I say the willingness to put in the work of noticing non-drafted players who were coming on 'before' most other teams noticed, gave you an edge. Now, we literally have thousands of websites identifying those trends on a weekly/daily basis. A definite advantage for more passive FF managers.

If there were any doubters left, this should convince them. Last year a Democrat passed a bill making it illegal to eat beaver, this year another Democrat is trying to reverse the ban. https://www.fox9.com/news/mn-senator-wants-make-legal-eat-beavers?fbclid=IwY2xjawIR2AxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHfOc_a91hmz_i2Bl2pwDtgU0IWrhFBs6RSJGWtDwstSyxotPt1dMhlo7aw_aem_SMAbqxJqmKUnDujNYd-8cQ

Anyone looking to get rid of stuff on eBay should consider this. For the 2024 tax year, the IRS is using a $5,000 threshold, regardless of the number of transactions. The threshold will drop to $2,500, regardless of the number of transactions, for the 2025 tax year. Starting in 2026, the $600 threshold will apply. https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/self-employment-taxes/a-guide-to-irs-form-1099-k-for-ebay-sellers/c3v3tCIwl

A+

If I had to speculate, I'd go with that scenario.