The end of the world as we know it
stats that will scare you, dependence edition.
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May 4th, 2014 at 7:54 pm
Scary numbers indeed, but many will scan the first fifteen bullet points nodding and going yep, uh huh, right on…then when they get to sixteen (and of course that’s why it’s sixteen otherwise the others would never get read), they go HEY, that’s MY money I worked for. But it mostly ain’t, and it’s the single biggest line item there is.
May 4th, 2014 at 10:18 pm
Wow, I never knew that only private sector workers paid taxes. Here I was operating under the assumption that all the federal government employees pay taxes as well, out of their salaries, just like the greeter at Wal-Mart and the CEO of GM.
But I guess it is easy and politically acceptable to consider a salary a government benefit.
May 4th, 2014 at 11:29 pm
We could give all the government employees massive raises so they would have to pay more tax, that’ll fix that deficit. #leftardnomics
May 5th, 2014 at 12:34 pm
That is highly manipulative. The stats being compared are apples and oranges. Bullet point number one comes from a largely flawed study, which counted only full time, year round employees as being employed. Contract and seasonal workers were not counted as being employed taxpayers.
Then, any household that contained ANYONE receiving government benefits counted everyone in it as receiving benefits. My mother, who receives Social Security, lives with me. I am a semi-retired person who only works part time. I had a Gross income last year of over $70K and paid over $10K in taxes, yet this study would count both if us as unemployed, receiving government benefits, and a drain on the system.