The truth is no poor person contributes. America is too generous with social services. Free school which costs on average the American taxpayer $12,500 per year per child. Free healthcare through the emergency room. Average visit is over $10,000 in cost. Of course direct and indirect social service payments. the legal system also runs on tax dollars

The truth is most Americans don't pay either. Social Security pays out 8 years beyond money contributed. Medicare pays out over 300 THOUSAND more in benefits than it takes in.

You have to legally earned and be taxed 3 million dollars (as an employee because a employer also contributes) in your life just to be zero with what you cost society just in old age benefits in America because of the benefits you receive . Understand that is per person. Why? because medicare taxes are only 1.45% for the employee and the employer. Social security is only 6.2% for the employee and the employer. That is very little money coming in, but the benefits you get back are huge.

Even if Social Security and Medicare took your entire check and you worked to 100 years old you would not have contributed enough to pay your own way.

When other waves of immigrants came here 100 years ago there were no benefits. You made it or you starved. That is why there is a collapse coming because of social service benefits. Every child born and every immigrant that comes here is making the collapse come sooner.

The dollar fine for immigrants to become Americans should be at least 500 thousand per person without kids. That is how much money America pays out in social services per person just in old age benefits.