[July4]

I guess this is how Communism takes hold as the Republic breathes its last.

[Grampa Dave]

Nonpayers = PC version of moochers.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”In fact, our model suggests that a 1 percentage point increase in the share of tax filers who are nonpayers (from 40 percent to 41 percent, for example) is associated with a $10.6 billion per year increase in transfer payments. Since the number of nonpayers has increased by 20 percentage points over the last two decades, our model indicates that in 2010 alone, over $213 billion in transfer payments are associated with this two decade increase in nonpayers.
Further, analysis suggests that the increase in nonpayers may also be affecting other aspects of public finances such as the national debt. This is not surprising given that the growth of transfer payments has been a key driver of the growth of the national debt. “

This is hell of a problem becauses traditionally it was Republicans who in tax cuts removed these people from the Fed income tax payees. That was partly political but also partly to encourage them to work rather than stay on welfare, Of course EITC is the working poor man's/woman's welfare.

But once they pay no Federal income tax the only thing left to offer them for a vote short other peoples money is a cut in their entitlement taxes, which is in abstract sense other peoples money as they will still get the entitlements.

[Grampa Dave]

[sanjuanbob]

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read and

all applicable to this:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating

the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another

person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the

government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have

to work because the other half is going to take care of them,

and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to

work because somebody else is going to get what they work for,

that is the beginning of the end of any nation.