Your share of the welfare tab: $560 a month
The conservative Heritage Foundation has broken down what President Barack Obama's welfare spending binge is costing at the household level, and it's a shocking number.
The study pegs the price tag for Obama's welfare programs at $10 trillion over the next decade, and that doesn't include the cost of his health care plan, which if passed will consume a similar amount. Heritage says the average household will have to pay $560 per month this year and $635 per month next year to cover welfare spending, if the tab is actually paid for and not kicked up the road.
The monthly obligation would be enough to cover the mortgage for many families and certainly would more than handle the average car note.
Welfare now consumes one in seven federal and state tax dollars. And it's not being spent very well.
Heritage notes that if all welfare program spending were converted into direct cash payments to the poor, it would be four times the amount needed to raise the income of all poor families above the official poverty line.
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Government redistribution
Thomas Jefferson once said that "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
As proof of this take a look at government spending as a percent of GDP. From 1787 to the Roaring 20s, which began the period of the Wilsonian progressive movement government spending as a % of GDP never exceeded 4% except in wartime. Today it exceed 20%.The progressive movement which began as European intellectual thought invaded America has torn the very fabric of American Rugged Individualism to shreds and has never looked back.
Read the Social security original pamphlet and you will find the govt claimed "you and your employer would each pay 3 cents on each dollar you earn up to $3000 per year ... that is the most you will EVER pay."
Medicare cost projections were no better. The govt claimed in 1965 that by 1990 medicare would only cost about 12 billion but by 1990 it exceeded 100 billion. With health care looming the redistribution will never end.
Re: Your share of the welfare tab: $560 a month
Please list what items make up "Welfare". I'm interested to know what actually makes up this widely over-used and extremely vague word.
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