Gateway Pundit just laid out the numbers again. Economist Antonio Graceffo’s piece shows who actually funds Washington and who lives off the checks. The top fifth of households pay roughly 70 percent of major federal taxes. The top 10 percent of filers paid 70.5 percent of federal income taxes in 2023. The top 1 percent paid 38.4 percent of those income taxes. The bottom fifth pays close to nothing in net federal taxes—and often gets money back.
That bottom fifth received about $19,800 per household in benefits in 2023 while paying roughly $140 in net federal taxes. Means-tested welfare programs (Medicaid, food assistance, SSI, refundable credits, housing) ran about $1.06 trillion in FY 2026—roughly one-seventh of all federal spending. Bottom 40 percent of households took 75 percent of those means-tested benefits in earlier CBO data. Employment in the bottom fifth is low: 0.4 earners per household and average wages around $4,149 in 2022 data. Continued below this vid clip
🚨 MILTON FRIEDMAN (1978): Milton describes the “Negative Income Tax” as a solution to the systemically fraudulent & unhealthy dependency system known as “Welfare” in the USA.
“The welfare system causes much more harm than good.”
Friedman also points out that the family is the fundamental unit of our society.
“We speak of our society as an individual society, it is not, it is a family society. The fundamental unit of our society is the family.”
Do you agree with Milton that the political left attacks the family unit in order to achieve their utopian vision of “equality”?
“Every dogmatic proponent of equality has been in favor of destroying the family.”
— Publius (@OcrazioCornPop) October 11, 2026
These are not the people writing the checks. They are the people cashing them. Yet they vote. And when they vote, the pattern is clear.
- Current welfare recipients in one national survey of working-age voters backed the Democrat 65.5 percent to 32.9 percent Republican in 2020.
- Democrats are roughly twice as likely as Republicans to have received food stamps at some point, per Pew data.
- Research on food-stamp rollout shows Democrats gained votes where the program expanded, largely by mobilizing supporters of the benefit.
The conflict is obvious. Net consumers of government transfers have a direct financial stake in bigger transfers. They vote for candidates who promise more Medicaid expansion, larger food stamps, higher refundable credits, and “tax the rich” schemes that hit the people already paying the bulk of the bill. The Sanders-Khanna “Make Billionaires Pay” bill would hit roughly 938 billionaires with a 5 percent annual wealth tax and send $3,000 checks to households earning $150,000 or less—including those already living on handouts.
It is a system in which people who contribute little or nothing net to the treasury help decide how much more will be extracted from those who do. Founders limited the franchise in various ways for exactly this reason: property and taxpaying stake mattered because pure majority rule without skin in the game turns into plunder. Modern means-tested welfare has created a permanent class of net recipients who reliably vote to expand that system.
I couldn’t believe this stat from @ICEgov
⚠️61% of illegal alien households use at least one major welfare program
⚠️only 37% of U.S.-born households use welfare
Another reason for mass deportation https://t.co/7YFQ6dIiqL
— 🇺🇲PrConservative🇵🇷 (@pr_conservative) October 22, 2026
- The top 1 percent already pays a disproportionate share while owning most corporate equities and businesses that generate payroll and corporate taxes.
- Payroll taxes fall heavier on higher wages and business owners.
- Even tariffs and estate taxes land more heavily on higher-income households in dollar terms.
- Meanwhile, the bottom quintile’s effective federal income tax rate has been negative for years because of refundable credits.
Allowing net welfare recipients to vote on the size of the welfare state is equivalent to letting the beneficiaries of a trust fund vote to raise the contributions from the people funding it. The incentives are one-way. More benefits, more dependents, more votes for more benefits. Work requirements (the ones Trump pushed for able-bodied food-stamp recipients) get attacked precisely because they threaten that cycle.
The math does not change because someone calls the argument mean. Taxpayers fund the government. Net welfare recipients do not. They should not get an equal vote on how much more to take from the people who do.
— The Whatfinger News Team: Sgt K, Sgt L, with Grok on edits
We are being replaced in our own country by those who don’t contribute…
Sitting down?
1970 – USA
White Population: 88%
Immigrant Households on Welfare: 6%2020 – USA
White Population: 62%
Immigrant Households on Welfare: 59%Today – USA
White Population: 56%
Immigrant Households on Welfare: 61%But don’t complain about it because that’s racist.
— GINGERSKOL💜💛 (@GlowSurfing) September 24, 2026
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