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Undertoad · 04-20-2004, 07:22 AM

I had the information about waste in the past but it might no longer apply. I do know that, at one point, the taxes collected for social programs would have put every single poor person in the US over the poverty line if actually paid out in benefit money. Of course the amount paid out did not nearly achieve that.

That was around the early 90s though, before welfare reform.

04-20-2004, 07:22 AM	#25
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I had the information about waste in the past but it might no longer apply. I do know that, at one point, the taxes collected for social programs would have put every single poor person in the US over the poverty line if actually paid out in benefit money. Of course the amount paid out did not nearly achieve that. That was around the early 90s though, before welfare reform.