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http://m.thenewamerican.com/?url=ht...ear&utm_referrer=https://www.google.com/#2893
Following the release of the latest budgetary statement from the U.S. Treasury, Ali Meyer dove into the statistical morass of charts and graphs to determine just how much the welfare state is paying out in benefits. Meyer, writing at CNS News, concluded that beneficiaries received over $2 trillion from the American taxpayer last year, or almost 60 percent of all federal government spending. This included “means-tested” benefits — which require incomes to be below a certain level to quality for them — as well as “non-means tested” benefits such as Medicare, Social Security, unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation and the like.
She missed the mark by half. First off, the Treasury statement only counts federal welfare benefit payouts and consequently leaves out state, municipal, and local welfare programs. Second, she leaves the subject of the cultural impact of turning the United States into a gigantic welfare state to someone else to decipher.
http://m.thenewamerican.com/?url=ht...ear&utm_referrer=https://www.google.com/#2893
Following the release of the latest budgetary statement from the U.S. Treasury, Ali Meyer dove into the statistical morass of charts and graphs to determine just how much the welfare state is paying out in benefits. Meyer, writing at CNS News, concluded that beneficiaries received over $2 trillion from the American taxpayer last year, or almost 60 percent of all federal government spending. This included “means-tested” benefits — which require incomes to be below a certain level to quality for them — as well as “non-means tested” benefits such as Medicare, Social Security, unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation and the like.
She missed the mark by half. First off, the Treasury statement only counts federal welfare benefit payouts and consequently leaves out state, municipal, and local welfare programs. Second, she leaves the subject of the cultural impact of turning the United States into a gigantic welfare state to someone else to decipher.
