The Government Accountability Office issued a report that showed at least 1,500 federal employees may have wrongly received benefits. The group’s investigation, which focused on two Social Security programs for people who have limited incomes due to disabilities, found several specific cases in which beneficiaries were earning well above the incomecap while still receiving benefits. In one case, a Transportation Security Administration screener was overpaid $108,000, according to the report.Next we can look at each state's per capita debt here. Ohio's is $933 per person. Please note in this chart which states owe the most: the blue states of California, New York and so forth.
And, finally, we discover that the democrats want some states to pay more taxes than others. Why? Because it's too expensive to live in the blue states anymore because of profligate spending so the politicians want red states now to underwrite the cost of their welfare programs. Over at The Washington Examiner:
In other words, the various tax brackets would apply to residents in certain regions at higher income levels versus other parts of the country. A family with an income of $50,000 or even $1 million in Manhattan would pay less federal income tax than a family with the same earnings in Omaha. The bill is called the Tax Equity Act, but a more accurate title would be the Blue State Tax Preference Act.Add to that the knowledge that those same blue states, who can no longer afford to support their programs and spending on anything and anyone, those same blue states are voting to do away with the electoral college, which was created to keep the balance of power of the states so that the heavily populated cities and east/west seaboards will not overwhelm the heartland in a presidential election. Over at Boston.com.
Doesn't seem quite fair, does it?
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