The federal government and the states pay a combined $1 trillion for welfare recipients. The average is $20,000 per person and over $30,000 per family.
This comes from hundreds of programs, everything from food stamps to Medicaid.
There’s a small army of social workers who do nothing but help people get everything they can from the government. The Obama administration even started an outreach program to illegal immigrants.
Every time there’s a budget crisis, a debt ceiling crisis, a fiscal slope or cliff, the Democrats cry out like stuck pigs. The Republicans want to cut money to elderly, to babies; to the poor, to single mothers, to the downtrodden, the helpless. How heartless can you get?
I think the Republicans need to respond. They need to step right up to the plate and say, yes – we need to raise taxes. Not by $85 billion with new taxes on the wealthy; not by $100 billion in new Obamacare taxes (which are already baked into the budget), not even by going over the fiscal cliff which amounts to a $500 billion hike in taxes.
We need the fiscal cliff! We need that $500 billion extra in annual income. Every middle class family needs to pay that $3500 extra in taxes. Hell, we need another $500 billion – another $3500 – to pay for the $1 trillion annual cost of welfare.
We need an increase in $7000 on middle class families to balance the budget.
It’s the right thing to do.
