{"id":12905,"date":"2024-02-14T16:47:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T16:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12905"},"modified":"2024-02-14T16:47:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T16:47:24","slug":"20-percent-of-welfare-spending-goes-to-the-households-taxed-to-fund-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12905","title":{"rendered":"20 Percent of Welfare Spending Goes to the Households Taxed To Fund It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“About one in every five dollars that passes through the federal welfare system ends up right back where it started, according to a new report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not robbing Peter to pay Paul. It’s more like “robbing Peter to pay Peter,” wrote the report’s author, Judge Glock, director of research at the Manhattan Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the federal welfare state has grown to a point where many middle-class and even some upper-income households receive benefits, it has become more common for the same households to both pay federal taxes and collect federal transfer payments. Glock’s paper<\/a> shows how significant that overlap is: About 20 percent of the annual funds in the federal welfare system are simply returned to households that paid that amount in federal taxes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Dollars returned in the form of welfare transfers are often restricted\u2014food stamps can only be used for certain purchases, for example\u2014in ways that dollars never taxed away from someone’s paycheck aren’t. Or the funds might only be available at certain times of the year, as is the case with welfare delivered via refundable tax credits<\/a>. There’s also the cost of cycling that money through the system: paying for the IRS to collect it and various bureaucrats in other places to oversee its return.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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20 Percent of Welfare Spending Goes to the Households Taxed To Fund It<\/a><\/blockquote>