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Excuse me? How much money both aqt the federal and state level does this country spend each year on welfare? You have Medicaid, food stamps, section 8, LIHEAP, school meals, cash assistance etc.... the list is endless. To suggest these programs are not substantial is being naive.
But it would be offsetted by the increase in public services such as law enforcement and firemen
Do some research 13% is a pretty big portion of the budget.. Taxing the rich, as numb nutz wants to do, amounts to about .04% of GDP per year.. All that does is make liberals feel better.. Now, getting rid of welfare on the other hand...
It would have a significantly higher impact than taxing the rich which is a drop in the bucket.. This is just one of many links but either one you look at the percentage of hand-outs is very significant.
Dropping PBS has a smaller impact than taxing the rich, but yet mitt wants to do that instead
Speculative threads like this are basically dumb, working on the premise that assistance programs would be stopped cold turkey
How about thinking of the long term effects for the hopeful idea that most will be phased out
Speculative threads like this are basically dumb, working on the premise that assistance programs would be stopped cold turkey
How about thinking of the long term effects for the hopeful idea that most will be phased out
That would obviously be the only correct way to do it. Kinda like Canada has approached it.
You mean people would have to pay for their own food and rent...horrible!
Well no. Because they probably wouldn't be able to find a job if there weren't any or didn't have the skills. So they would have no money to pay for food and rent. And the landlords and food sellers would have less money too because there aren't any people using their social security payments for rent and food. So they would have to put their prices up or go bankrupt. See the cycle?
Social security at least keeps people in the market and other people benefit from selling them goods and services.
Well no. Because they probably wouldn't be able to find a job if there weren't any, so would have no money. And the landlords and food sellers would have less money too because there aren't any people using their social security payments for rent and food. So they would have to put their prices up or go bankrupt. See the cycle?
Social security at least keeps people in the market.
Thread is about welfare , not social security. One is your own money that was taken from you being given back to you. The other is money that was taken from other people being given to you. Big differance.
Thread is about welfare , not social security. One is your own money that was taken from you being given back to you. The other is money that was taken from other people being given to you. Big differance.
Sorry - different names in Australia.
What you call social security, we call aged and disability pensions etc.
Social security here includes unemployment payments or income security. So forget I used the words 'social security' and said welfare instead. Same thing goes.
Let's say that, in a radical attempt to balance the budget, Congress entirely cut spending on SNAP (food stamps), Section 8 (subsidized housing), and Medicaid (and they found a loophole around these "mandatory programs" that allowed them to be cut, or declared a special state of emergency).
In addition, in the same year, several states that also fund these programs separately cut their funding by 100% of near that.
What would be the result?
My guess is that most citizens (liberals included) would be very thankful that the 2nd Amendment is still intact.
Riots on a large scale. We have these entitlement programs so that the bottom of society doesn't riot and burns things down. With Professional Sports and Shows like American Idol and Big Brother we keep these people distracted and busy. The Romans actually came up with this concept, its called "Bread and circuses".
Have these people ever considered getting jobs and becoming productive members of society?
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