GOP Senate Candidate Likens Food Stamp Recipients To Wild Animals

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1. Who Gets Food Stamps:

Children: 45%
Disabled: 11%
Elderly: 8%
Veterans: 2%
Adults /c Children 20%
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Total 87%

47% of the remainder were working at least one job.

By Race:

White: 36%
Black: 22%
Hispanic: 10%

2. Who gets entitlement benefits:

Elderly: 53%
Diabled: 20%
Working Poor: 18% (Below poverty level)
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Total: 91%

3. Who Get Tax Expenditure Benefits:

Top 1% = 23%
Top 20% = 66%
Middle 60% = 31%
Bottom 20% = 2.8%

4. Cost of welfare = $282.9-billion, includes TANF, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Public Housing, WIC, Head Start, and the Social Service Block Grant.

5. Annual Subsides To Industries:

Farm = $16 billion
Airline = $68 billion
Oil = $35 billion.
Coal = $86 billion
Natural Gas = $100 billion
Ethanol = $173 billion
Flood Insurance = $12 billion

Total = $490 billion

Indirect Oil/Gas Subsidies: Federal, State and Local Subsidies including Tax breaks, Delpletion Allowance, Oil Pipelines, Monitoring, Remote Sensing/Mapping (USGS), etc. less environmental costs: per gallon = $2.25

Gas consumption: 138-billion gallons per year.

Total Cost of Oil subsidies = $310 billion.

Total Direct/Indirect Subsidies to Business: $800 billion