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He says that too many Americans lean on taxpayers rather than living within their means. He supports politicians who promise to cut government spending. In 2010, he printed T-shirts for the Tea Party campaign of a neighbor, Chip Cravaack, who ousted this region’s long-serving Democratic congressman.
Yet this year, as in each of the past three years, Mr. Gulbranson, 57, is counting on a payment of several thousand dollars from the federal government, a subsidy for working families called the earned-income tax credit. He has signed up his three school-age children to eat free breakfast and lunch at federal expense. And Medicare paid for his mother, 88, to have hip surgery twice.
Opponents of Government draw more deeply on Government with each passing year - The share of benefits flowing to the least affluent households, the bottom fifth, has declined from 54 percent in 1979 to 36 percent in 2007, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis published last year.
Opponents of Government draw more deeply on Government with each passing year - The share of benefits flowing to the least affluent households, the bottom fifth, has declined from 54 percent in 1979 to 36 percent in 2007, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis published last year.
Wow.
I would vote for a canidate that wuold vote to eliminate all welfare including corp. welfare but guess what I take advantage of it, it is legal after all. nothing wrong with that!! its like green freaks that want to save the world but still ride thier car use plane.
Uh huh, sure you would. Those social security recipients are all just lining up to give that money back. It's not as if any politician who tries to mess with that program would lose their job or anything.
My absolute favorite are Medicare receivers IN GOVT PROVIDED SCOOTERS protesting "Obamas govt takeover of healthcare" complete with signs.
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Those social security recipients are all just lining up to give that money back. It's not as if any politician who tries to mess with that program would lose their job or anything.
