Citation so very needed. 200,000 dollars to do what? And how often? And by what agencies?
“The American Welfare system” is an enormous patchwork of state, federal and local organizations with different mandates and populations served. It also does not tend to transfer much money at all. I’ve lived on Social Security Disability for years and it pays a little over 7k a year (try “bootstrapping” yourself on that budget). I make another 40 dollars monthly in food stamps. I am receiving the maximum amount possible from SSDI; the max for Food Stamps is about 120 dollars monthly.
I am highly suspicious of the claim that for my annual income of ~7600 USD, it takes ~192,400 USD just to get it to me, affecting no other welfare recipients in the country.
Total yearly welfare spending in the usa is $700 billion [1]. This includes federal, state, and local spending. This is being spent on around 50 million people [2] (that’s 1/6th of the population). So $14K/person. To get $200K/person you’d need there to be only 3 million poor people in the usa (1%) which is way to low.
This sounds like maybe 50% overhead, not 500% overhead.
Citation so very needed. 200,000 dollars to do what? And how often? And by what agencies?
“The American Welfare system” is an enormous patchwork of state, federal and local organizations with different mandates and populations served. It also does not tend to transfer much money at all. I’ve lived on Social Security Disability for years and it pays a little over 7k a year (try “bootstrapping” yourself on that budget). I make another 40 dollars monthly in food stamps. I am receiving the maximum amount possible from SSDI; the max for Food Stamps is about 120 dollars monthly.
I am highly suspicious of the claim that for my annual income of ~7600 USD, it takes ~192,400 USD just to get it to me, affecting no other welfare recipients in the country.
Total yearly welfare spending in the usa is $700 billion [1]. This includes federal, state, and local spending. This is being spent on around 50 million people [2] (that’s 1/6th of the population). So $14K/person. To get $200K/person you’d need there to be only 3 million poor people in the usa (1%) which is way to low.
This sounds like maybe 50% overhead, not 500% overhead.