I'm just curious. Do the people who claim so vehemently that their money is being stolen to be given to the poor actually know where most of the tax revenues go towards? Do they know how much of the tax revenues actually go towards poverty reduction?
Of all the countries in the world we have reliable data for, the only nations where the taxes and spending reduce inequality less than the United States are Taiwan and Switzerland, and that is only because they have very low inequality to begin with.
In fact, just to bring in an example from this own thread, the oil industry receives about 15-18 billion a year in subsidies. If you add subsidies to oil transportation, that figure increases to close to 35 billion dollars. TANF, in contrast, costs about 18 billion dollars.
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