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lol how can you dislike the facts!
lol

Since we are looking at the bright side, probably 25 cents of every welfare dollar is repatriated to the gov through tobacco taxes, alcohol taxes and lottery tickets. It's a win-win!

Only the money that goes to the local dealer escapes the tax hatchet, another good argument for legalization of drugs, so the gov can get it's cut.

Need more cigarette money, just grab a parolee and make another baby! Life is good.

A government job that serves no purposes is welfare as well. Useless wars fought just to infringe on the citizens personal liberty and to enrich the defense sector is welfare for the defense sector and a crime against the servicemen and women being put in harms way. Tallying this up, I would say the majority of taxes is spent on either welfare or crime. They should be mostly abolished (small flat tax will likely be necessary to wean off the debt financing) and replaced with fees that need to be strictly reinvested into the domain they are taken from and can be voted upon.

Well there is no arguing the FACT that anyone in the welfare bracket of life, working or on welfare, gives a lot more of the money they gain back directly through the aforementioned taxes than anyone wealthy.

Richer you are the less you work for each dollar. A person on welfare WORKED harder and longer by just through applying and cashing the checks through a year than an overpaid suit did in the few moments it would take for him to gain the equivalent cash.

You do know that the world economy crashed under the economics of 8yrs of George Bush?

You expect a turnaround by do nothing?

You could have tried passing Obama's jobs bills for works and for vets?

zzyzzx you don't have a leg to stand on

You want to moan about the figures but your party obstructed any progress to put people vets and construction workers back to work

Politicofact says

You ultimately get the Social Security and Medicare back.

I don't know why anyone would assume that.

I'm sure if I qualified defense spending excluding procurement and salaries, then defense spending would look tiny in comparison to everything else too.

The writer assumed that, your welcome to ask him and read his page

zzyzzx says

I'm sure if I qualified defense spending excluding procurement and salaries, then defense spending would look tiny in comparison to everything else too.

Sure you don't need to pay the Armed Forces anything.

Sure you can fight wars without procuring the weapons in the first place.

Do you see how stupid your circular arguments become.

Did you notice that revenue from income tax is higher than that of revenue from corporate tax

1, Income from Individuals 41% revenue
2. Corporate tax 9% revenue

a very large margin

http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj2n2/cj2n2-12.pdf

Corporate WELFARE QUEENS!

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/02/who-are-the-biggest-corporate-welfare-queens/

http://townhall.com/columnists/briandarling/2012/06/11/big_agriculture__the_queen_of_corporate_welfare/page/full/

Corporate Welfare vs. Social Welfare Statistics

About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food stamps and housing assistance in 2006.

zzyzzx says

I'm sure if I qualified defense spending excluding procurement and salaries, then defense spending would look tiny in comparison to everything else too.

oh yeah tiny.

John Stossel Sums Up Corporate Welfare
Corporate Freeloaders
http://www.swifteconomics.com/2012/08/22/john-stossel-sums-up-corporate-welfare/

Who are the Takers and the Moochers?

The Corporate Welfare Queens, that's who.