Oh, so this is what's all about! You just want to go against Trump. Because things like food stamps have solved everything and absolutely not been a burden for the public debt.
Rape jokes aren't funny unless done to someone in jail. Let that sink in.
God, I am... SO convinced that you're part of a Russian troll network or something, just based on the responses you've been giving me so far
It kills me when people bitch about welfare. Everyone hates a single mother that gets like 400$ a month to feed her children but no one bats an eye at people like Jeff bezos and bill gates that could give something like 7 thousand families 100,000$ dollars a year and never notice the money was missing. Who could never spend their money in 200 lifetimes. You guys bitch about the poor, I think the rich are disgusting.
That's some broad accusation for having told an objective truth, don't you think?
I'm not against food stamps. I just think that it could have handed better, with less waste. Less waste = more people to help. And calling Bill Gates out when he's done so much to improve life to people worldwide isn't something nice.
Of course you'd equate any form of public assistance with food stamps. And no, they absolutely are not nearly as big a drain on the national budget as corporate welfare is. Like, not even 1/1,000,000th of the drain.
That's great, has almost virtually nothing to do with what was being discussed
In 2002 corporate welfare cost $170 billion to taxpayers. Food stamps alone almost $71. If you can find a more updated version of the price for corporate welfare I found then go for it, but I highly doubt that the government pays 170 quadrillion dollars to bail corporations out.
"People complain about this but do nothing for people in jail that are treated worse"
Waste usually comes in the form of those trying to ensure only "good" people get it, or only those who have earned it get it (or: arbitrary hoops that fly in the face of research). If you really want to reduce waste, and make social programs work to the benefit of the free market, you should look into Universal Basic Income. Kurzgesagt has a good video on the matter
Corporations have armies of lawyers and lobbyists that negotiate their tax rate to near zero. For Trump's corporate tax cuts alone we're adding as much as 5.5 trillion to the debt over the next ten years.
Most states have SNAP cards. Unless you have multiple kids and are a single mother, then you can get TANF cash, but it's highly unlikely. You have to be really needy and have kids in your household, and prove you're using the money right. SNAP means you can only buy food, and specific types of food, at that. My dad was on SNAP for a while, and I used to help him budget his food stamp amount. You can't use "food stamps" on prepared meals (aka expensive rotisserie chickens or sushi) or cigs/beer/lotto. They'll deny the entire purchase if you put it in your cart.
Tax cuts aren't money that were spent though. And the 1% is still paying a lot more taxes than the 99%.
Tax cuts add to the national debt all the same, you can't be idiotic and give them out like candy. That was a big part of the last economic crash, and it'll be a big part of the next one too.
Then protest, boycott, get a list of the companies that benefit the most from those tax cuts without giving anything back and call them out. People need to start caring about companies and boycott the ones doing this crap. But don't act like other wastes of money are "less bad" because, as I said, the 1% still pays a lot more taxes than the 99%.
You can't do that, and the people who are make up a fraction of the 1.3%* of welfare users (actual statistic) that are commiting welfare fraud by selling their stamps to other people (who presumably also need them if they're buying them) for money to buy those things
It doesn't matter if they pay more, they aren't paying their full share. At the same time they exploit them for cheap labor, corporations want you to pretend that Mexicans are the cause of all your woes.
http://federalsafetynet.com/welfare-fraud.html
The issue with large businesses can't be solved until people start finally supporting local businesses and companies with no shady procedures.
The issue can't be solved until laws and regulations stop favoring anti-competitive practices and large corporations buying out all competition. In other words, never. We were mega-fucked the second Citizens United passed, and every president since then that has pushed for corporate favoritism over the well-being of American citizens just speeds our demise.
You did catch me there, I was going from memory. Last I remembered legitimate users equated to 99.9% (which would mean my figure should have been 0.1%, I added an extra 0 erroneously), but I guess the accurate statistic is 1.3%
