Tax Cuts Work...

[Longhorn85]

Charity is about $250 billion a year in the US. Things like SS, education subsidies & healthcare run about $2 trillion.

Instead of providing a link to sink this mistruth I'll give you a chance first to back it up with a reference.

 

[Lao Tzu]

Instead of providing a link to sink this mistruth I'll give you a chance first to back it up with a reference.

Okey dokey.


healthcare $954 billion.

http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2005/02/great-divide-part-two.html

Education $909 billion.

http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/index.html

SS $539 billion.

http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/basicfact.htm

$248 billion to charity in 2004

http://chronicle.com/errors.dir/noauthorization.php3?page=/weekly/v51/i42/42a02701.htm

Sink away

 

[Longhorn85]

Okey dokey.


healthcare $954 billion.

http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2005/02/great-divide-part-two.html

Can you get your "facts" from somewhere other than a liberal blog? Just because the blogstarter thinks that private health insurance should be a part of the calculation, that doesn't make it so

Take that number down from 954 to 549.

Furthermore, healthcare isn't a charitable donation, it is a business in America.

 

[Longhorn85]

Education $909 billion.

http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/index.html

Let us keep our taxes because not only is private education better, it is cheaper. So let us have our 909 billion bucks back:

"The United States Department of Education...found that the average public school cost was approximately USD$7,200 per student while the average private school cost per pupil was just USD$3,500"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States#Public_and_Private_schools

 

[Longhorn85]

SS $539 billion.

http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/basicfact.htm

We would rather keep our 539 billion and invest it ourselves. Thanks but no thanks, US govt:

"Unlike personal savings, pensions, and independent retirement accounts, all of which are stores of wealth, Social Security is a misguided political construct, wherein one's retirement benefits are dependent on the willingness of future workers to be taxed.

Benefits paid to present recipients are low. Benefits to be paid to future recipients will be even lower. Worse, the legal requirement to pay Social Security taxes prevents workers from investing the money lost to those taxes in higher earning assets."

http://www.cato.org/pubs/ssps/ssp2es.html

 

[mrplunkey]

Charity is about $250 billion a year in the US. Things like SS, education subsidies & healthcare run about $2 trillion.

That was a joke about giving to the poor. I just hope someday you conservatives are mature enough to understand what bad people you all are. When you do I have a signed copy of Al Franken's biography in a sealed first class envelope with your name(s) on it.

Don't you guys have to refer to it as "The Gospel"? Did you just blaspheme the great Al Franken? He's in television, so you know he's got to be an expert in politics.