Are we broke yet? -Government Cash Handouts Now Top Tax Revenues

April 22, 2011 06:44


The fundamental transforming of America is nearly complete. Over the remaining Obama term the US will create insurmountable debt and the economy will crash. Obama wants to be in office another term to rearrange the pieces into his socialist redistributive Utopia.

By Elizabeth MacDonald at FOX Business

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U.S. households are now getting more in cash handouts from the government than they are paying in taxes for the first time since the Great Depression.

Households received $2.3 trillion in some kind of government support in 2010. That includes expanded unemployment benefits, as well as payments for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and stimulus spending, among other things.

But that’s more than the $2.2 trillion households paid in taxes, an amount that has slumped largely due to the recession, according to an analysis by the Fiscal Times.

Also, an estimated 59% of the 308.7 million Americans in this country get at least one federal benefit, according to the Census Bureau, based on 2009 data. An estimated 46.5 million get Social Security; 42.6 million get Medicare; 42.4 million get Medicaid; 36.1 million get food stamps; 12.4 million get housing subsidies; and 3.2 million get Veterans’ benefits.

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