Actually, Rush Limbaugh quoted a statistic in one of his books (See, I Told You So, IIRC) that put the government's overhead at 72 cents per every dollar spent being "compassionate." So that owuld work out to $3.57 collected by Washington for every dollar spent "helping the ______ (insert favorite group being starved by Republicans here)". Rush's books are pretty old (going back to the early days of Toon misrule), but I can't imagine things having improved very much since.
Thanks, I knew it was higher but didn't have any figures handy.
Has anyone seen any exit polls on the MS governor race? If so can you post a link........