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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/18/who-receives-benefits-from-the-federal-government-in-six-charts

Three-quarters of entitlement benefits written into law in the United States go toward the elderly or disabled. That's according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. And a big chunk of the rest goes to working households. Only about 9 percent of all entitlement benefits go toward non-elderly, non-disabled households without jobs (and much of that involves health care and unemployment insurance)”

If you want to look at who the taxes benefit.

tax expenditures added up to about $1.2 trillion in 2011. And they tend to flow disproportionately toward wealthier households”

You guys have a distorted imagination of just who welfare recipients are. You are essentially saying you don't want a lot of 65+ people nor disabled people to vote.

A very small fraction of people are "welfare queens". Yet the right wing acts as though they are in the majority of welfare recipients.


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