LEGAL PLUNDER: Welfare Payments Amount to $70,000 Per Family

Onerous taxation (forced confiscation of private property) on hardworking Americans to fund moochers and looters is a form of slavery.

While America has grown vastly wealthier and upward mobility has surged, the welfare state has exploded into a $1.4 trillion behemoth not because poverty persists, but because the system is structurally rigged to hide real income, inflate dependency, and perpetuate a massive, built-in fraud.

Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society not to fund its destruction through the import and funding of invaders who destroy our way of life.

Former Senator Phil Gramm and former assistant commissioner at the Bureau of Labor Statistics John Early wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal pointing out the other great fraud of welfare in the United States.

Gramm and Early: Something is profoundly wrong with the U.S. welfare system—a problem that runs far deeper and is more dangerous than the shocking fraud in Minnesota that has been making headlines. Across the past half-century, America has seen what in any other country would be considered a golden age, in which lower-income households have made incredible progress. Despite the end of our postwar economic dominance around 1975, the country’s real per-capita gross domestic product grew by 142% from 1974 to 2024. More than two-thirds of U.S. households have inflation-adjusted incomes today that would have put them in the top one-fifth of households in 1967. Sixty-two percent of the children who grew up in the poorest fifth of all households in the ’70s and ’80s worked their way up to a higher income bracket as adults, some all the way to the top quintile. Yet even as our economy has experienced broad-based growth, real federal welfare spending has soared by 765%, more than twice as fast as total federal spending, and now costs $1.4 trillion annually. Were that money simply doled out evenly to the 19.8 million families the government defines as poor, each household would receive more than $70,000 a year. The source of this dramatic mismatch is a fraud built into how various programs determine welfare eligibility: The government doesn’t count any refundable tax credits or benefits that aren’t paid in cash as income to the recipients. (Wall Street Journal)