If you make $50,000 a year then you pay 10 cents a day in taxes for food stamps

[Spot72]

A married person with one child making $50,000 a year will pay exactly $3,820 in federal taxes. Of those, $2100 is allocated to Social Security, and $725 is distributed Medicare. This leaves a whopping $995 to be used to pay for programs administrated by the Federal government. That money is broken down below in its entirety:

National Defense $247.75 / 24.9%

Health care -- $235.81 / 23.7%

Job and Family Security -- $190.05 / 19.1%

Net Interest -- $73.63 / 8.1%

Veterans Benefits -- $44.77 / 4.5%

Education and Job Training -- $35.82 / 3.6%

Natural Resources, Energy, and Environment -- $19.90 / 2.0%

Immigration, Law Enforcement, and Administration of Justice -- $19.90 / 2.0%

International Affairs -- $15.92 / 1.6%

Science, Space, and Technology Programs -- $9.95 / 1.0%

Agriculture -- $6.96 / 0.7%

Community, Area, and Regional Development -- $4.98 / 0.5%

Response to Natural Disasters -- $3.98 / 0.4%

Additional Government Programs -- $78.61 / 7.9%


The category needed for examination is "Job and Family Security", which comprises 19.1% of all of the $995 paid in. In the future I will examine other categories in more detail. The breakdown of the $190.05 is listed below:

Unemployment insurance -- $22.88 / 2.3%

Food and nutrition assistance -- $36.82 / 3.7%

Housing assistance -- $19.90 / 2.0%

Earned income, Making Work Pay, and child tax credits -- $32.84 / 3.3%

Supplemental Security Income -- $18.91 / 1.9%

Federal military and civilian employee retirement and disability -- $43.78 / 4.4%

Child care, foster care, and adoption support -- $5.97 / 0.6%

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families -- $6.96 / 0.7%

Railroad retirement and additional income security -- $4.98 / 0.5%


http://www.examiner.com/article/a-pe...or-food-stamps

[dsummoner]

Why should anyone be forced to spend even one cent on providing existence/consumption subsidies for your human pets?

BTW, you should be thanking the Romneys of the country that paid more in taxes in one year, to fund more of your spending priorities, then you will in a lifetime. They are carrying your dead weight.

[SomeIdiot]

I can spare 10 cents a day to keep other Americans fed. It's that chunk of change going to "national defense," AKA intervening in other people's civil wars and attempts to build civilization where there was none before that bugs me.

[Calamari]

Think about how far into the future we'd be if we only coughed up a few more pennies for basic science.

[georjec2]

10 cents ?!?!? Is that all !?!?!!?

They way some people moan I thought it was $1.00 or more !

Don't take a dime form me if it's gonna feed some poor republican, backwater, lazy, Jerry Springer watching bum.

[dsummoner]

10 cents ?!?!? Is that all !?!?!!?

They way some people moan I thought it was $1.00 or more !

Don't take a dime form me if it's gonna feed some poor republican, backwater, lazy, Jerry Springer watching bum.

You should be pro-choice (as in being for the choice of the individual to spend their funds as they see fit) rather than pro-rape.

[demopublican]

If 23% of my taxes go to healthcare, why do I need to spend hundreds a month on Heath insurance for my family. 24% go to defense and I don't have to buy defense insurance.

[jessup270]

Some posts here on the board, sounds like government officials when they waste a billion dollars in taxpayer money on a failed cause or project.

The response from the federal employee, is that it was only a billion dollars and a billion dollars represents only a tiny fraction of the federal budget.

[RavnFreek]

Great and for .50 a day you can adopt a starving kid climbing a trash dump. Comes with a picture and everything.

[Gopher]

If you discontinued the direct cash payments to the “poor” and just used a small portion of that to set up soup kitchens instead then we wouldn’t need to spend as much as we are currently spending. A bowl of beans/rice, piece of bread and maybe a seasonal vegetable/fruit and they can have all of the water they want. That should prevent them from starving. Likewise, it will prevent them from trading their benefits for drugs, alcohol, cigarettes or lottery tickets. The downside risk is having the government run the operation since they generally spend at least 4,000 times more than what it should actually cost. Probably best to contract it out to a non-union company.

[Phineas Finn]

Aren't Americans great humanitarians!

I'm so proud.

[dsummoner]

Aren't Americans great humanitarians!

I'm so proud.

It is about saving the Earth Mother.

[SunsetSue]

If you discontinued the direct cash payments to the “poor” and just used a small portion of that to set up soup kitchens instead then we wouldn’t need to spend as much as we are currently spending. A bowl of beans/rice, piece of bread and maybe a seasonal vegetable/fruit and they can have all of the water they want. That should prevent them from starving. Likewise, it will prevent them from trading their benefits for drugs, alcohol, cigarettes or lottery tickets. The downside risk is having the government run the operation since they generally spend at least 4,000 times more than what it should actually cost. Probably best to contract it out to a non-union company.

Or, let the people donate the money to their local religious institution/charity that provides food for the down & out. The dolts that believe the govt should take our money to feed the poor are the dolts who are preventing people from giving to charity, as in "why should I donate if the "poor" are getting EBT to sell for liquor & drugs?".

BTW - Nothing gave me more pleasure than to call and report the skank trying to sell her EBT at the grocery store on Sunday.

[banner1124]

If you discontinued the direct cash payments to the “poor” and just used a small portion of that to set up soup kitchens instead then we wouldn’t need to spend as much as we are currently spending. A bowl of beans/rice, piece of bread and maybe a seasonal vegetable/fruit and they can have all of the water they want. That should prevent them from starving. Likewise, it will prevent them from trading their benefits for drugs, alcohol, cigarettes or lottery tickets. The downside risk is having the government run the operation since they generally spend at least 4,000 times more than what it should actually cost. Probably best to contract it out to a non-union company.

Another intellectual lightweight duped into believing that the incredibly tiny percentage of folks who do this kind of thing are the rule rather than the exception.

[dsummoner]

Spay and neuter your human pets. Don't be that failed at life Libbie that has resorted to hoarding human pets in his/her refrigerator.

[Spot72]

Wonder what other entitlements the GOP wants to cut?

[Mom49of4]

Wonder what other entitlements the GOP wants to cut?

What ones do you think should be cut?

[Calamari]

That doesn't answer his question.

[LMoore24]

According to the CBO, the cost of the SNAP program in 2011 was $78 billion:

http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43174


There are about 138 million tax filers in the United States of America, about half of whom pay any federal income tax:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_t...are_in_America


So, even if we count all tax-filers (some of whom are clearly making no contribution to the SNAP program), the average yearly amount required would be 78 billion divided by 138 million which comes out to about
$565 per year per tax-filer.

Not 10 cents per day.

Show me where I am wrong.


The author of your article, Mr. Colagiovanni, has done what Leftists are wont to do in their "studies". Start out with the premise you want to prove, then try to find some way to slice and dice the data to support your premise. Failing that, move the goalposts a little to a premise that sounds similar to your original, and slice and dice again. Repeat ad nauseum.

It's usually not very difficult to refute these "studies", but it becomes tiresome because of the sheer numbers of Leftist "journalist" or "academic" drones who are willing to churn out garbage in support of the Leftist ideologies they have been force-fed since childhood. No doubt they actually believe they are making a contribution to society.


Show me where I am wrong.

[dogstarman]

....
So, even if we count all tax-filers (some of whom are clearly making no contribution to the SNAP program), the average yearly amount required would be 78 billion divided by 138 million which comes out to about
$565 per year per tax-filer.

Not 10 cents per day.

Show me where I am wrong.

....

It was "10 cents per day" for a married person earning $50K/year and paying $3820 in federal taxes. Moreover, individuals aren't the only entities who pay federal taxes, corporations ALSO pay taxes (usually).

Your little exercise in "arithmetic" is "slicing and dicing the data" more than the author of the article.