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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
1% of the federal budget goes to welfare.
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and I'm not sure your 1% claim is accurate:
"The cost of these programs has increased from 0.8% of GDP in 1962 (before Medicaid) to 2.7% of GDP in 2006, or by 1.9% of GDP. If we exclude Medicaid, health care for children and veterans pensions it is 0.89 % of GDP, or $117 billion. (The numbers for the excluded items are found in Table 8.5, page 142).
This represents approximately 7.5% of total non-Social Security receipts to the Federal Government."
http://polecolaw.newsvine.com/_news/...s-welfare-cost