Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney underplayed the percentage of Americans receiving some federal aid in that new clandestine fundraising video that is giving liberals, the media and President Obama’s team fits.
While Romney suggested that 47 percent of Americans are dependent on government aid of some sort, the number is actually slightly higher. Over 49 percent of Americans live in a household where somebody is dependent on federal assistance, according to federal statistics.
And the percentage of people who don’t pay taxes is worse than Romney pegged at 47 percent. According to the Heritage Foundation, it’s over 49 percent. This is from a report they just issued: “In 1962, the first year measured in the Index of Dependence on Government, the percentage of people who did not pay federal income taxes themselves and who were not claimed as dependents by someone who did pay federal income taxes stood at 23.7 percent; it fell to 12 percent by 1969 before beginning a ragged and ultimately steady increase. By 2000, the percentage was 34.1 percent; by 2009, it was 49.5 percent. In short, the country is now at a point where roughly one-half of ‘taxpayers’ do not pay federal income taxes, and where most of that same population receives generous federal benefits.”
U.S. Census figures cited by multiple sources including the Wall Street Journal, CNN and Heritage, find that American reliance on federal assistance has surged under Obama. When he took office, it was 44.4 percent. And it’s a trend: some 30 percent relied on assistance in the 1980s.
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Who is calling government benefits “generous” Welfare is not generous, Social Security was paid for and is not generous, disability was paid by beneficiary and is not generous, USA military Veterans were promised free medical insurance upon retiring after 20 years of service, is not free, is actually more expensive than private insurance. Wounded soldiers returning have to go through hoops to get any benefits, and maybe wait for 3 to five years to be approve, yes is retroactive if you live up to the day long enough to cash the first check. After approval for a VA disable, it takes another year to figure out what percentage you are disable, than another 1.5 year to calculate what they owe you, but if die, you do not collect your benefits and/or your family.
PLEASE DO NOT CALL GOVERNMENT BENEFIT GENEROUS. when a soldier looses an arm or a leg, and they get benefits to help them, it is not generous, is part of yourbody and mind that you gave. Generous is the benefits that our Senators and congresspersons getsand benefits for their rest of their lives. that is generous.