here's it another another point that I
share with you
republicans are outraged frankly for all
the wrong reasons
this this past Friday five billion
dollars just
in time for Thanksgiving right just in
time for Thanksgiving
five billion dollars was automatically
slashed from the federal food stamp
program
affected elisa 47 million Americans the
US Department of Agriculture estimates
because in these cuts a family of four
who receives food stamps
will lose about 20 meals a month but
that car was enough for the republicans
they so on a slash an additional $40
billion from the program
in a move reducing spending in the
federal debt republicans love to argue
like program the programs like snap the
federal suit food stamp program
and other social safety net programs put
unfair burden on american taxpayers
but if they just took a minute to crunch
the numbers
they'd realize that's flat-out wrong
in 2012 the average american taxpayers
making fifty grand a year
pages thirty six dollars towards the
Food Stamp her
program as ten cents a day as less than
the cost of a gumball
the republicans think that's still too
high a price to pay to help the neediest
and most vulnerable Americans make no
mistake about it qualify for food stamps
you really have to be on the neediest a
most vulnerable
and when it comes to funding the rest to
American social safety net programs
all over together although
the stuff we call welfare the average
American taxpayer making fifty thousand
a year
pays just over six dollars a year thirty
six dollars food stamps six dollars for
welfare
simply put the american taxpayers in pan
much for social safety net programs like
food stamps Medicare
are medicaid excuse me but we are paying
a lot for the billions of dollars the US
government gives to corporate America
each year the average American family
pays
a staggering 6 hours and
dollars a year in subsidies
to Republican friendly big business and
ashes the average family as a family
making fifty grand a year
some is making more that's a seventy
thousand the pain even more so where is
summer six thousand dollars the UN are
paying every year
actually go or more for making more than
fifty or a little less wearing it was
being get the point where is a go well
for starters
870 dollars other where Spain thirty six
dollars a year for food stamps
we're spending is a average family you
know with it he does know your income
a hundred and seventy dollars %uh that
goes to direct subsidies and grants for
corporations
we give that money to the government is
taxes they write a check
is includes money to subsidize big oil
companies that are polluting our skies
and chilling climate change in global
warming
and compare that the thirty six dollars
you and I pay for food stamps every year
an additional 870 dollars goes to
corporate tax
subsidies is a pain after taxes that
they're paying back during the
you know back before reagan basically
the tax Foundation's found that the
special tax provision corporations cost
taxpayers
over a hundred billion dollars a year
that's roughly eight hundred and seventy
dollars
per family and in reality that numbers
actually
I'll certainly much much higher citizens
for tax justice found
that the US Treasury loss $281 billion
dollars in corporate tax subsidies
which means the average American family
could be out as much as sixteen hundred
dollars you're just on that line item
finally the six thousand dollars in
corporate subsidies the ever average
American family pays every year
1231 other goes to making up for revenue
losses from corporate tax havens
this money goes to recouping losses from
giant transnational corporations like
Apple in GE
that hide their money overseas so they
can boost profits avoid paying taxes to
help the american economy
bottom line here average American family
to pain six thousand dollars a year to
subsidize giant transnational
corporations
there are ready making billions hundreds
a billion dollars in profits every year
the past decade alone corporations have
doubled their profits
republicans are capital who keeps a
suggested we can't afford to help poor
in this country
the wrong well we really can't afford is
doling out a hundred billion dollars
every year corporations they don't need
it
that's where the real outrage and the
real news coverage should be
time to bring an end to corporate
welfare to use those dollars to help
those Americans who need it the most 36
bucks a year
for food stamps six thousand dollars a
year for corporate welfare
seems to me like that you know that this
is a no brainer
