More confirmation that red regions are being invaded by mercenaries.
Social Security? As in the program we were all required/taxed to contribute to & now it’s considered gov’t aid?
“And Trump thinks Tariffs will help. All Tariffs will do is raise prices.”
Horse dung. The first hundred years of our history we were run on tariffs and liquor excise taxes. We are the market where everyone wants to sell. They either pony up for the privilege of using slave labor and sweatshops...OR they move production here and our economy explodes that way.
And his chart on government assistance is wildly inaccurate. To hear him tell it, republicans are the welfare problem in America.
SS is not government aid you nitwits. It is returning a SMALL amount of the money taken by force from the people.
From the first dollar you earn. 12.6% is taken by the government with the promise (aka outright lie) that if you somehow manage to survive to a certain ever changing age they will return a tiny bit to you. Since that money was already TAXED TWICE there is no need to tax it yet a third time Greedy Guts.
I am sorry that hurts your tiny little fee-fees and strong desire to have to government take all our money through taxes.
Wow.
And Trump thinks Tariffs will help. All Tariffs will do is raise prices.
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With or without tariffs, if doesn’t seem like American capital & labor want anything to do with domestic production.
Always an excuse for this national failure, never any solutions, just stay the course rhetoric.
And Trump thinks Tariffs will help. All Tariffs will do is raise prices.
Trump threatened Tariffs against countries who have tariffs against US products. Those countries responded by dropping their tariffs.
We exist in linear time so we have the ability look back at actions and results.
They specifically say in the title: "Growing Reliance of Americans Are Dependence (sic) on Government Aid"
Then they go on to lump in Medicare into this, which is going to lump any area in which an older population exists that are on Medicare, which are going to be a majority of Republican voters.
While that "majority" of older citizens who are Republican may be small, relatively speaking, I will bet money that chose that 25% cutoff level very precisely for a reason. I bet they simply moved that line up and down until it swung Republican.
How often have we heard from Leftists the inversion of the truth, that Red states are riding on the coattails of Blue states? (Yes, we DO hear that)
Those same people are going to point to this and say "See, we told you so!"
Seems like a bunch of bull crap to me. This person is an anti-Trump A-Hole. Probably has a copy of THIS up on their bookshelf:
One does not bite the hand that feeds them.
The main, traditional Sociable Insecurity pension program is NOT “Government Aid”
But there’s a reason the D’s won’t let it become privatized like, say, your 401k or IRA.
Because the D’s like forcing people to look to government (their government) as if citizens were dependent subjects or serfs.
It is about Power (and if the D’s can use YOUR tax money to enslave you, all the better!)
Keep in mind that Blue Counties can have HUGE numbers of people, as in nearly 10 Million in Los Angeles County alone.
Social Security and Medicare are not “aid”. They are government-run forced retirement and insurance programs people paid into their entire working lives.
However food stamps and Medicaid are aid.
Reading that header I thought the article was going to be about federal subsidies to Hollywood movie studios.
It’s “THE MAP” again. If you know, you know.
All. By. Design.
I wonder if they are counting everyone on Medicare and SS as being *dependent* on the government.
We certainly aren’t but Medicare is forced onto you when you hit 65 and I paid into SS. Might as well collect while there’s still some left.
Of course, if the government put into practice policies that favored independence in financial responsibility, you’d see fewer people using the government.
There are always the lazy ones though, who just suck off the government teat because they can.
Measuring by counties is meaningless.
Van Horn county (or whatever it is called over near me) has maybe 100 people in it. Roughly 48% are illegal and 48% are drug addicts with 3 ranchers doing work.
"Americans' Stunning And Growing Dependence On Government Aid In Pictures"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Vote-buying interpretations the Constitution's General Welfare Clause by desperate elite Democrats aside, it remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the unconstitutionally big federal government the specific power to tax and spend for national welfare of any kind.
Regarding growing dependence on corrupt federal government, Democratic and Republican Trump supporters need to support hopeful Trump 47 with a new Constitution-respecting Congress in November.
The new Congress needs to support Trump in leading the states to repeal Congress's 16th Amendment-powers (direct taxes) so that taxpayers struggling to eat and pay their bills will be better able to get themselves through difficult times. The 17th Amendment, popular voting for federal senators, can disappear too.
In fact, Justice Joseph Story had not only noted that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the big, bad feds the specific power to establish a national welfare program, but the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had likewise clarified that constitutional drafters had left the care of the people uniquely to the states, NOT the federal government.
"16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states [emphasis added]." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Finally, let's not allow the anti-Trump media try to fade our memories of what we witnessed on July 13.
Down the Memory Hole: Google Hides Autocomplete Suggestions Related to Trump Assassination Attempt (7.28.24)
Income tax is a tax on American labor. Tariffs are a tax on foreign labor. Tax the foreign labor, not the American labor.
COVID money sealed the deal for the communists in D.C. After taking over the schools and state goverments the commies figured out how to print up money and have the cities and counties sign their independence away to be beholden to the rules of the federal government.