Less than 16% on all forms of welfare.
http://finance.yahoo.com/taxes/article/102817/How-Your-Tax-Dollars-Are-Spent
2007-12-17 05:19:11 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
All types of aid to the needy -- Medicaid, housing subsidies, aid to poor families with children (welfare, which accounts for about 1 percent of the budget), food stamps, school lunches and so on, plus unemployment benefits -- account for about 16 percent of the budget.
2007-12-17 05:20:12 · update #1
Why do Republcans lie about this? This includes school lunches.
2007-12-17 05:24:18 · update #2
WELFARE IS 1% OF THE BUDGET!
2007-12-17 05:25:01 · update #3
Corporate welfare is 20 billion dollars a year.
2007-12-17 05:26:03 · update #4
1% is what,about 28 billion? Sounds like a lot of money to me.Especially when the majority of people on it are low-lifes who choose not to take care of themselves,not those who can't.
I have no problem with public assistance,just the massive fraud and waste always present within those systems. And the idea that they have to be ever expanding.And the idea that if you oppose giving aid to perfectly capable,but lazy people,you're somehow uncaring.Which is a large part of the public assistance.
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2007-12-17 05:34:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
16% goes to welfare or aid for the needy!! The
Congressional Budget Office allots this, Not the Republicans or the Democrats!!!
2007-12-17 05:56:07 · answer #2 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
that's quite a bit!
"About 70 percent of the annual budget pays for commitments already incurred -- everything from Social Security benefits to interest on the national debt. Neither President Bush nor Congress has much say over that."
I"n fact, all government payments to individuals amount to about 58 percent of the budget. That's twice the share of the budget such payments claimed 40 years ago. And the percentage continues to climb -- giving those pushing reform of such entitlement programs a powerful argument."
2007-12-17 05:22:42 · answer #3 · answered by nothing 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋
I think you may want to read your own link again.
"In fact, all government payments to individuals amount to about 58 percent of the budget. That's twice the share of the budget such payments claimed 40 years ago. And the percentage continues to climb -- giving those pushing reform of such entitlement programs a powerful argument."
2007-12-17 05:30:04 · answer #4 · answered by CaptainObvious 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
That is about %16 too much!!!! I would rather take that %16 out of the budget and let me keep my little portion of it for myself.
2007-12-17 05:23:25 · answer #5 · answered by IH8TomBrady 3 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Dont forget corporate welfare for CEO's to stupid to do things themselves. Or welfare for sports stadiums and arenas. Or welfare for farmers.
2007-12-17 05:24:51 · answer #6 · answered by Whats Up Doc 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Most of it spent supporting our troops, their families, our handicapped veterans, and the familes of our dead war heros.
Conservatives think that is too much. I think I troops deserve more support.
2007-12-17 05:24:47 · answer #7 · answered by Darth Vader 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Whereas waging war on an innocent country has cost us a trillion so far.
And these posters are yelling about spending money on the poor and infirm.
DISGUSTING.
2007-12-17 05:25:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Something tells me it's less than the ammount spent on the war in Iraq.
2007-12-17 05:25:19 · answer #9 · answered by brickity hussein brack 5 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Way to much is being spenty on the doless.
2007-12-17 05:30:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋