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So, tell me how food stamps have bankrupt the nation ~ and how do "entitlements" do that ~ perhaps Social Security provides entirely too great a temptation to the government to just take the income from FICA and spend it on frivolous stuff (like Amtrak)

I suspect you are most POd about EITC ~ which is a $50 billion program. With a nearly $2 trillion excess spending gap to be filled, that is 0.25%, 1/4 of 1% of the gap.

Here, let's take it slow ~ when your tax needs are so great that if you TAXED everything away from every wage earner, whether poor, medium or huge, or super rich ~ 100% taxation ~ and you still don't have enough money to pay the obligations, it's not people earning a living, or even the poor, who are causing your problems.

It's a SPENDING PROBLEM, and not even a SPENDING ON ENTITLEMENTS PROBLEM, but just Wildassed stupid nonstop monstrous spending.

You cannot win the game by just clamping down on SSS, SS, EITC and food stamps.

tell me how food stamps have bankrupt the nation ~ and how do "entitlements" do that

Like this:

Now, add up 20%, 22%, and 16%.

You should come up with 58%, which is where we start with before we can even cut anything else.

That 58% is bankrupting the country. It all started with FDR, but it still continue.