Now, is this true? Nope. Not even a little.
The whole "article is about rates, headlines turns it into absolutes, people are stupid" thing is something I often see in immigration circles.
Recently I saw someone sperging about how illegal immigrants (!) pay more in taxes than the 1% in the US, and how their tax contributions are like a third of the total tax income of the US.
Which I found a bit off, to which the guy belittled me for ignoring the evidence he posted, but what his sources actually said was that
in some areas illegal immigrants pay
higher effective tax rates than the 1%. Which is decidedly not the same as paying more taxes than the 1%, which still carries like nearly half of the total income tax load alone.
And their total tax contributions are nowhere close to a third of total tax income. Not even a third of pure income tax.
Anyone with a modicum of understanding would immediately be suspicious of the claim that illegal (!) immigrants alone carry a third of the US economy, or pay more taxes than the rich, since, well, it doesn't make sense at all. But many just see the headlines that braindead or malicious (or both) whorenalists have made out of some data, and don't really have have the capacity to realize that something's off.
