...welfare is bankrupting the US? Welfare (TANF) costs $20 billion a year in federal funds.(1) This is barely 1/200th of the total federal budget. Food stamps are only $37 billion. If you add up all the entitlements that conservatives actually disagree with (And don't count programs they support such as Medicare) it comes to not even 3% of the total federal budget.
We spend twice as much money sending people to jail for the "crime" of smoking pot than we do on welfare, so that they won't harm themselves by smoking pot, but most conservatives consider the latter an acceptable use of taxpayer money.
We spend 50 times as much money occupying Iraq each year as we spend on welfare.
Extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich has cost the federal government twice what welfare costs each year.
So my question is are most Tea Party members brainwashed into believing that welfare and other entitlements for poor people are the main cause of the US Federal Budget deficit? Do they think this is where all their taxes are going to?
Sources:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/08/research_desk_tallies_how_expe.html
http://www.cfpa.net/2008dedbudget.htm
http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=860
We spend twice as much money sending people to jail for the "crime" of smoking pot than we do on welfare, so that they won't harm themselves by smoking pot, but most conservatives consider the latter an acceptable use of taxpayer money.
We spend 50 times as much money occupying Iraq each year as we spend on welfare.
Extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich has cost the federal government twice what welfare costs each year.
So my question is are most Tea Party members brainwashed into believing that welfare and other entitlements for poor people are the main cause of the US Federal Budget deficit? Do they think this is where all their taxes are going to?
Sources:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/08/research_desk_tallies_how_expe.html
http://www.cfpa.net/2008dedbudget.htm
http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=860