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<blockquote data-quote="cinco" data-source="post: 1856682" data-attributes="member: 7656"><p>Good point, I hadn't thought of that. No intentional act of being dishonest - if I get it wrong, I'll admit it. </p><p></p><p>So, prompted by your question, I dived deeper...</p><p></p><p><em>And this crisis could cost taxpayers a billion dollars this year. In 2008, Oklahoma received $485 million in federal food stamp funding. That paid the average recipient $97 a month. Now the average monthly payment is $130 per person, meaning Oklahoma is on track to receive $945 million in federal food stamp funding this year.</em> (Story from 2010).</p><p><a href="http://www.newson6.com/story/13346371/oklahoma-food-stamps-numbers-skyrocket" target="_blank">http://www.newson6.com/story/13346371/oklahoma-food-stamps-numbers-skyrocket</a></p><p></p><p>Point still being, whether money taken from OK State Taxes or Federal Taxes, it is still unsustainable. So technically, yes, it is still (albiet partially) OK money from the stand point I'm an Okie paying Federal Tax. As you inferred, it also means it is everybodies' money who paid into the Federal system.</p><p></p><p>I believe the figure was somewhere along the line of only 53% of Americans paid any Federal income tax the previous year? Thus 53% helping pay the way for Federal programs for the remaining 47%. Oops sounds worse in an article from Fox News I found...</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>This year’s Index of Dependence on Government presented startling findings about the sharp increase of Americans who rely on the federal government for housing, food, income, student aid or other assistance. (See last week’s chart.)</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Another eye-popping number was the percentage of Americans who don’t pay income taxes, which now accounts for nearly half of the U.S. population. <u>Meanwhile, most of that population receives generous federal benefits.</u>“One of the most worrying trends in the Index is the coinciding growth in the non-taxpaying public,” wrote Heritage authors Bill Beach and Patrick Tyrrell. <strong>“The percentage of people who do not pay federal income taxes, and who are not claimed as dependents by someone who does pay them, jumped from 14.8 percent in 1984 to 49.5 percent in 2009.”</strong>That means 151.7 million Americans paid nothing in 2009. By comparison, 34.8 million tax filers paid no taxes in 1984.</em></p><p>Read more: <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/taxes/2012/02/22/percentage-americans-who-pay-no-income-tax-hits-495#ixzz21wVqxW9x" target="_blank">http://nation.foxnews.com/taxes/2012/02/22/percentage-americans-who-pay-no-income-tax-hits-495#ixzz21wVqxW9x</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cinco, post: 1856682, member: 7656"] Good point, I hadn't thought of that. No intentional act of being dishonest - if I get it wrong, I'll admit it. So, prompted by your question, I dived deeper... [I]And this crisis could cost taxpayers a billion dollars this year. In 2008, Oklahoma received $485 million in federal food stamp funding. That paid the average recipient $97 a month. Now the average monthly payment is $130 per person, meaning Oklahoma is on track to receive $945 million in federal food stamp funding this year.[/I] (Story from 2010). [url]http://www.newson6.com/story/13346371/oklahoma-food-stamps-numbers-skyrocket[/url] Point still being, whether money taken from OK State Taxes or Federal Taxes, it is still unsustainable. So technically, yes, it is still (albiet partially) OK money from the stand point I'm an Okie paying Federal Tax. As you inferred, it also means it is everybodies' money who paid into the Federal system. I believe the figure was somewhere along the line of only 53% of Americans paid any Federal income tax the previous year? Thus 53% helping pay the way for Federal programs for the remaining 47%. Oops sounds worse in an article from Fox News I found... [I]This year’s Index of Dependence on Government presented startling findings about the sharp increase of Americans who rely on the federal government for housing, food, income, student aid or other assistance. (See last week’s chart.) Another eye-popping number was the percentage of Americans who don’t pay income taxes, which now accounts for nearly half of the U.S. population. [U]Meanwhile, most of that population receives generous federal benefits.[/U]“One of the most worrying trends in the Index is the coinciding growth in the non-taxpaying public,” wrote Heritage authors Bill Beach and Patrick Tyrrell. [B]“The percentage of people who do not pay federal income taxes, and who are not claimed as dependents by someone who does pay them, jumped from 14.8 percent in 1984 to 49.5 percent in 2009.”[/B]That means 151.7 million Americans paid nothing in 2009. By comparison, 34.8 million tax filers paid no taxes in 1984.[/I] Read more: [url]http://nation.foxnews.com/taxes/2012/02/22/percentage-americans-who-pay-no-income-tax-hits-495#ixzz21wVqxW9x[/url] [/QUOTE]
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