Imagine if the government suddenly cut off entitlements.
Suddenly, tens of millions stop paying their rents and credit cards bills. Economic crisis ensues.
That, and tens of millions violently raiding supermarkets and liquor stores. And other stores.
In Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, a race hustling black preacher called it "steam control." If whitey don't pay, the pressure of the steam in the boiler will increase, until the boiler explodes.
When will the Right and Patriots stand up to this b.s.?
The gov't and fellow gangster extortionists demand their victims pay them their "fair" share????
Here in the USA, welfare is in our DNA, and has been since the 1960s.
So what’s the cost of these 28% freeloaders?
Medicaid
Welfare
It’s probably 1/4 of tax revenue.
And many that are disabled are lying about it or manipulating the system.
My deadbeat brother-in-law hasn’t held a steady paycheck in nearly 20 years and my wife’s mother generally supports him, my wife’s sister their kids. The guy is 60 and has never owned a home, doesn’t pay rent, and freeloads off family. He is morbidly obese and used that to claim partial disability with the VA for a minor non-combat injury that wouldn’t be a problem if he didn’t eat 4,000 calories per day. He’s not actually disabled, but it’s easier for government doctors to just give people the green light. My sister-in-law has been “praying” he’ll be found fully disabled so they can get more money. What honorable person actually prays for their spouse to be fully disabled? They are always looking for free stuff.
Every year they brag about the size of their “tax refund” and I tell my wife it’s not a refund, it’s a “tax redistribution” that comes out of our pocket.
Found the answer: we pay in Medicaid and welfare to able bodied adults $504 billion.
Found the answer: we pay in Medicaid and welfare to able bodied adults $504 billion.
Of the 5.1 trillion total income tax revenue
504/5100 =0.0988
So 10% of your taxes goes to just deadbeats.
It’s actually the very top tier we should be complaining about.
The bankers don’t pay taxes because they set up trusts prior to 1913.
They can have as much money as they want whenever they want by printing it. Then we suffer from the inflation it causes, which is another tax.
The fed needs to go. So does the illegal revenue agency.
True.
If you look at the benefits, most of it is Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The bulk of the money goes to older people who have paid in all their lives, and to doctors and hospitals. Things like SNAP and EITC are not as big.
If you put together SNAP, EITC, and the child tax credit, that’s about 4% of the budget. Social Security is 22%, Medicare is 14%, and Medicaid is 8%.
Yeah, and the top 10% lives off the government tit. How did the federalist society getting 400,000 a year, all those jobs BLM getting USAID money, all those do nothing commissions and agencies DOGE discovered. Contracts for new Air Force ones that are 10 years behind schedule with no delivery in sight. Every federal judge having a wife or daughter with some cushy hundred and $50,000 plus government funded NGO. The connected getting sweetheart contracts from now bid government action. So spare us the assaholic lectures.
This is like when they blamed the 2008 housing crash on poor people taking advantage of those poor bankers.
Stacey Abrams getting 20 million government dollars for a brand new climate justice NGO. The list is endless. Probably a third of our government expenditures go to the very rich with these shady back door deals. It’s not going to the bottom 20%,. They shouldn’t be getting a handout, but what they get us a pittance compared to what connected get.
Soros, Norm Ison, Southern poverty Law Center, all of them make a handsome living in the tens of millions from USAID, and government reimbursement for the continual stream of lawsuits they file. Every time they fall a lawsuit the government reimburses them for all their legal expenses which they heavily pad. Again, not saying the poor deserves something, but it’s getting pretty boring seeing these stories that the bottom 20% of the country is somehow bankrupting us… When the likely opposite is true that the top 20% is where the bankruptcy of America is coming from. They just structure their government teat differently.
And good old Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League. How much do they leech off the government with “research grants” etc?
Better title.
How fedgov ruined the lives of the bottom 50% and are working on making it 80%
Been that way for decades. The rich pay far more so the “rich need to pay their fair share” has always been a lie.
A simple graph could easily show this but conservatives suck at messaging.
I am right now far more concerned about how the self appointed elite are living on my taxes. DOGE cuts now.
Cut out the handouts.
They'll never work as long as they are being supported.
Additionally, I'll bet a lot of the rest of them are not as disabled as they claim.