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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RickN" data-source="post: 1987716" data-attributes="member: 8854">Some interesting info.If they repealed the entire Bush tax cuts and not just those for the rich it would raise about $66 billion a year, the deficit for Oct alone was $120 billion.This is an astonishing fact: the amount spent on federal welfare programs last year was enough to mail a $60,000 check to every one of the 17 million households living beneath the poverty line. And that doesnt include spending by state and local governments, which traditionally have had primary responsibility for welfare, or spending by private charities. Welfare is now the largest item in the federal budget.</blockquote>