top | item 29922068 (no title) matt_mb | 4 years ago >However, today it's easier than ever to live off the nanny state WITHOUT a career.In what way? discuss order hn newest hammock|4 years ago Welfare payments supplemented wages by about 8% in 1960.That figure has risen to about 36% today, a 3.5x increase.Chart: http://www.mygovcost.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/governme...Source: http://www.mygovcost.org/2011/03/14/the-u-s-as-welfare-state... (the first random example I found on Google) _moof|4 years ago This chart includes Social Security and Medicare. I don't think it makes sense to include retirees in a data set when making an argument about "welfare." load replies (1) noasaservice|4 years ago Like the way corporations do, I guess?PPP was a boon - 'Here is a loan that converts to freebie money for millions of companies'. Where'd the money go? Buying Lambo's and the like.Or, when can I get a tax abatement for 10 years? COmpanies can because of this mythical 'they create jobs' tripe.Just look up corporate welfare. And if I was permitted to, I would.
hammock|4 years ago Welfare payments supplemented wages by about 8% in 1960.That figure has risen to about 36% today, a 3.5x increase.Chart: http://www.mygovcost.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/governme...Source: http://www.mygovcost.org/2011/03/14/the-u-s-as-welfare-state... (the first random example I found on Google) _moof|4 years ago This chart includes Social Security and Medicare. I don't think it makes sense to include retirees in a data set when making an argument about "welfare." load replies (1)
_moof|4 years ago This chart includes Social Security and Medicare. I don't think it makes sense to include retirees in a data set when making an argument about "welfare." load replies (1)
noasaservice|4 years ago Like the way corporations do, I guess?PPP was a boon - 'Here is a loan that converts to freebie money for millions of companies'. Where'd the money go? Buying Lambo's and the like.Or, when can I get a tax abatement for 10 years? COmpanies can because of this mythical 'they create jobs' tripe.Just look up corporate welfare. And if I was permitted to, I would.
hammock|4 years ago
That figure has risen to about 36% today, a 3.5x increase.
Chart: http://www.mygovcost.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/governme...
Source: http://www.mygovcost.org/2011/03/14/the-u-s-as-welfare-state... (the first random example I found on Google)
_moof|4 years ago
noasaservice|4 years ago
PPP was a boon - 'Here is a loan that converts to freebie money for millions of companies'. Where'd the money go? Buying Lambo's and the like.
Or, when can I get a tax abatement for 10 years? COmpanies can because of this mythical 'they create jobs' tripe.
Just look up corporate welfare. And if I was permitted to, I would.