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Disturbing. Do not read if you want to sleep peacefully.
Disturbing. Do not read if you want to sleep peacefully.
One in five Americans â€" 64.3 million people â€" relies on government handouts to fulfill basic needs for housing, food and/or health care. That’s double the proportion before Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society,†and it doesn’t even include corporate welfare. Add the number of public workers, and almost three in 10 of us get our livelihood from government.
At the same time, two in five Americans in 2008 â€" 132.5 million people â€" did not pay federal income taxes and were not claimed as dependents by anyone who did. The percentage of nontaxpayers has nearly tripled since 1984.