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Editor's notes: the following totals may not include "section 8" rent assistance, adding 4 dollars per day to the following totals or $1,200 per month. And, remember, when you rent to a section 8 "client," it is near impossible to get them out of your home before they tear it up.
Secondly, if you make $17.12 per hour, your welfare counter-part makes $21 per hour. Enough is enough. We, all hard working middle class and beyond Americans, already pay their fair share. In fact, the poor owe us money !!
From the Weekly Standard:
The amount of money spent on welfare programs equals, when
converted to cash payments, about "$168 per day for every household in
poverty," the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee finds. Here's a
chart detailing the committee's findings:
According to the Republican side of the Senate Budget
Committee, welfare spending per day per household in poverty is $168, which is
higher than the $137 median income per day. When broken down per hour,
welfare spending per hour per household in poverty is $30.60, which is
higher than the $25.03 median income per hour.
"Based on data from the Congressional Research Service,
cumulative spending on means-tested federal welfare programs, if converted into
cash, would equal $167.65 per day per household living below the poverty
level," writes the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee. "By
comparison, the median household income in 2011 of $50,054 equals $137.13 per
day. Additionally, spending on federal welfare benefits, if converted into cash
payments, equals enough to provide $30.60 per hour, 40 hours per week, to each
household living below poverty. The median household hourly wage is $25.03.
After accounting for federal taxes, the median hourly wage drops to between
$21.50 and $23.45, depending on a household’s deductions and filing status.
State and local taxes further reduce the median household’s hourly earnings. By
contrast, welfare benefits are not taxed."
The universe of means-tested welfare spending refers to
programs that provide low-income assistance in the form of direct or indirect
financial support—such as food stamps, free housing, child care, etc.—and which
the recipient does not pay into (in contrast to Medicare or Social Security).
For fiscal year 2011, CRS identified roughly 80 overlapping federal
means-tested welfare programs that together represented the single largest
budget item in 2011—more than the nation spends on Social Security, Medicare,
or national defense. The total amount spent on these federal programs, when
taken together with approximately $280 billion in state contributions, amounted
to roughly $1 trillion. Nearly 95 percent of these costs come from four
categories of spending: medical assistance, cash assistance, food assistance,
and social / housing assistance. Under the President’s FY13 budget proposal,
means-tested spending would increase an additional 30 percent over the next
four years.
The diffuse and overlapping nature of federal welfare spending has led to some confusion regarding the scope and nature of benefits. For instance, Newark Mayor Cory Booker has recently received a great deal of attention for adopting the “food stamp diet” in which he spends only $4 a day on food (the median individual benefit) to apparently illustrate the insufficiency of food stamp spending ($80 billion a year) or the impossibility of reductions. The situation Booker presents, however, is not accurate: a low-income individual on food stamps may qualify for $25,000 in various forms of welfare support from the federal government on top of his or her existing income and resources—including access to 15 different food assistance programs. Further, even if one unrealistically assumes that no other welfare benefits are available, the size of the food stamp benefit increases as one’s income decreases, as the benefit is designed as a supplement to existing resources; it is explicitly not intended to be the sole source of funds for purchasing food.
Article taken in its entirety from The Weekly Standard.
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