When you hear Government dole, who do you think of?
You think of welfare cheats. You don't even think of these people as poor, elderly, or sick. You think of them as mean criminals taking your money. Right?
Well, your thinking is wrong.
The rich and America's big businesses are on the Government dole. Their "entitlements" are hidden, obscure, but their "entitlements" are much, much bigger than American welfare recipients entitlements.
What does America sacrifice for this wrong thinking? We sacrifice deserving people for these moochers, the big time moochers.
And what about adding USA defense spending, more than the next10-12 countries COMBINED, and our adventurous wars to the mix?
War takes away a lot as the rich people and Corporations beg for more Government "help." Dwight D. Eisenhower warned you, but we have not listened.
First, let's get the "socialism," and "redistribution" or "transfer of wealth" elephant in the room out of the way: it can be called "SOCIALISM."
Some things Government does is also called the "social contract" and that can be confused with "socialism."
Americans already accept smaller forms of socialism in our country in terms of social security and Medicare, as well states Medicaid. Now we have decided for a bit more: health care. Health care is a right, not a commodity.
These bits of "socialism" do not hurt American.
Some entitlements do not hurt America.
War hurts America. If we can spend $800BILLION in Afghanistan, and it looks like we will continue spending more and more in Afghanistan for 5o more years, then we can spend a few billion on health care.
"Where Is The Outrage Over Corporate Welfare?"
David Brunori, Subscriber, 14 March 2014
Is there no outrage because people are convinced Corporations deserve a break? Do Corporations do so much good that they deserve this huge break?
"Corporate Welfare vs. Public Welfare"
Submitted by Bud Meyers on February 5, 2014
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/corporate-welfare-vs-public-welfare-5519
"The federal government spends about $5 billion a year on direct payments to farmers and $9 billion per year on crop insurance subsidies. Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.) and his wife, for example, received $70,574 in direct payments last year. Fincher's payments made headlines after he said during committee debate that lawmakers should cut food stamp spending because they shouldn't use "other people's money" to feed the hungry."
"The rich get government handouts just like the poor. Here are 10 of them"
By Emily Badger and Christopher Ingraham By Emily Badger and Christopher Ingraham Wonkblog, April 9, 2015
Hint: one is a "Yacht Deduction." Here is how tax rules help the rich get this one.
"If you’ve got a boat and you’re paying interest on it, that interest is tax-deductible – provided your boat is really, really big. If it has sleeping quarters, a kitchen and a toilet – e.g., it is a yacht – then it can be considered a second home and any interest you pay on it is deductible. But if you just have a garden-variety fishing boat or canoe, sorry – no deduction for you.
Beyond that, if you have a yacht you can loan it out to a charter business for part of the year, and keep it for personal use the rest of the time. This allows you to deduct the purchase price, insurance, maintenance and slip fees too."
BUT the real point here is this: stop blaming welfare cheats who take maybe $1,000,000 from all of the American budget, for America's woes.
It is the RICH and the big Corporations that are taking billions out of Government coffers that we should be pissed off about.
Americans unite, study the facts, stop being played, and recognize the real moochers, the real "Welfare Stae," is the American rich and big businesses. CEOs earn much of what the are paid, but not as much as they are paid proportionate to what they do for our economy.
The special benefits going to rich people are not earned, deserved, or logical in any way except that they have the power of their riches.
You are wrong to go after penny begging poor welfare people. Even welfare cheats take FAR, FAR less than the rich from the coffers of Government. Why haven't you seen this before? Because you believe what the rich tell you. You believe what the church tells you. And the rich get richer. Why haven't you noticed the RICH GET RICHER AND RICHER AND RICHER.
How do the rich keep getting richer? How is it that 10% of our peoples own 90% of everything? Read books and learn!
Read about how the rich have fooled middle class Americans into worrying about the poor stealing from them! . . . while the rich stealing from the middle class!
It is almost funny how the rural Americans, angry white men and women, and alt-right have been fooled by rich people, and the American middle class has bought the trick hook, line, and sinker.
"How rich “moochers” hurt America"
The 3-point plan of wealthy landlords, lenders and insurance providers -- the true "takers" threatening the nation
Michael Lind
Friday, Mar 22, 2013 11:45 AM EDT
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/22/how_rich_moochers_ruin_america/
"The Real “Takers” in America: The Unproductive, Rent-Extracting Rich"
Productive Americans of center, left and right, unite!
By Michael Lind
http://evonomics.com/real-takers-america-unproductive-rent-extracting-rich/
"How rich “moochers” hurt America
In American politics as in the American economy, power and wealth have shifted from the industrial capitalists of old to the “rent lords” of the early 21st century, based in the overgrown FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) sector. The agenda of the new rentier oligarchy in the U.S. is quite different from that of traditional productive businesses. The Rentier Agenda consists of low taxes on rentiers, the privatization of infrastructure and social insurance, and a macroeconomic policy that favors creditors rather than debtors, including debtor businesses and debtor governments.
Low taxes on rentiers. In the late 20th century, the U.S. and a number of other capitalist countries made tax rates on capital gains lower than tax rates on wage income. This was supposed to encourage investment in productive enterprises, but in fact it merely provided the super-rich with windfall fortunes that have often been used for stock market and real estate speculation. Thanks to privileged tax treatment of capital gains, Warren Buffett complains that he pays lower taxes than his secretary, and Mitt Romney — the poster boy of rentier financial capitalism — paid 13.9 percent in taxes in 2010, lower than the combined employee and employer payroll taxes paid by low-income workers who pay no federal income tax (and not counting the state and local taxes that they pay). America’s rentier plutocracy has deployed campaign contributions to intimidate Congress into keeping taxes extremely low on those who make most of their income from investments, whether the investments enhance the American economy’s productive capacity or not.
Privatizing natural monopolies. The classic productive capitalist wants to found a company to provide a new, socially useful good or service and make money by sales. In contrast, the classic parasitic rentier wants to bribe the state legislature into privatizing and selling state roads so that he or she can make money without effort or innovation every time somebody drives and pays a toll."
You have bought the RICH huckster's spiel. His trick is to get you to look the other way, and you did! lol
"American Society’s Real Moochers: CEOs"
January 1, 2015
by Leo Gerard
http://billmoyers.com/2015/01/01/americas-real-moochers-ceos/
[This post first appeared at In These Times.}
"Of America’s 100 top-paid CEOs, 29 worked schemes that enabled them to collect more in compensation than their corporations paid in income taxes. The average pay for these 29: $32 million. For one year. And corporations mangle tax the code to deduct that too.
Though their corporations reported combined pre-tax profits of $24 billion, they wrangled $238 million in tax refunds out of the federal government. That’s refunds — the government gave money to highly profitable corporations.
That’s an effective tax rate of negative one percent.
That means middle-class taxpayers helped cover the cost of million-dollar pay packages for CEOs. Middle class taxpayers, whose median family income is $51,324 and whose federal income taxes are withdrawn directly from their checks before they see a cent of pay, support CEOs who pull down $32 million a year.
That qualifies CEOs as first-class fleecers!"
You have been fleeced!
It gets uglier!
"Their corporations pay nothing for essential government services that middle class taxpayers provide. That includes patent protection, the Commerce Department’s sanctions against foreign trade rule violations and federal court dispute resolution.
Some corporations haven’t developed schemes enabling them to tax the federal government. Instead, they pay, but not at that 35 percent rate they’re always whining about. Between 2008 and 2012, the average large corporation, according to Fleecing Uncle Sam, paid just 19.4 percent. Individuals earning $50,000 a year pay 25 percent. Clearly, corporations are not paying a fair share at 19 percent.
There’s this wacky theory that if governments excuse corporations from paying their share, then they’ll expand and create jobs. It’s wacky because it’s fiction. Highly profitable corporations aren’t expanding and creating jobs; they’re buying back their own stock.
A study by University of Massachusetts professor William Lazonick, president of the Academic-Industry Research Network, showed that between 2003 and 2012, S&P 500 corporations used 54 percent of their earnings – $2.4 trillion – to buy their own stock."
"CEOs are America’s real moochers"
posted by Jason Kottke Jan 05, 2015
http://kottke.org/15/01/ceos-are-americas-real-moochers
Read it Tweety supporters and then tell me you see what Tweety is doing when he hires Plutocrats and proposes a tax cut for the richest in America.
