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A Washington Times report underscores this shift. Last year, "for the first time since the Great Depression, Americans took more aid from the government than they paid in taxes," it has determined.
Transfer payments unemployment, Social Security, food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare and other forms of government welfare grew $231 billion last year to just over $2.1 trillion. Meanwhile, individual taxes shrank $325 billion to $2.1 trillion, slightly less (before rounding) than transfer payments.
So what did we expect to happen with all the tax cuts and outsourcing of the last 8-30 years? No jobs means no income means no income taxes. Duh.