Immigrants paid more in taxes than services they received 1994-2023

  • Sources: Calculations are based primarily on the Annual Social and Economic Supplements of the US Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey for March 1994-2023; and “National Data; National Income and Product Accounts,” Bureau of Economic Analysis, last revised September 2025. See Appendix for full details. Notes: “Other” includes all prisons and police. All amounts are inflation-adjusted 2024 dollars.
    Sources: Calculations are based primarily on the Annual Social and Economic Supplements of the US Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey for March 1994-2023; and “National Data; National Income and Product Accounts,” Bureau of Economic Analysis, last revised September 2025. See Appendix for full details. Notes: “Other” includes all prisons and police. All amounts are inflation-adjusted 2024 dollars.