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by TheCoelacanth
1901 days ago
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Your numbers are technically correct since you only gave one significant figure, but you're still rounding off more than $300 billion and also forgetting to count almost $400 billion in smaller programs. Out of $4.4 trillion: Social security - $1 trillion - 23% Medicare - $644 billion - 15% Medicaid - $409 billion - 9% SNAP, EITC, Unemployment, SSI and other Income Security Programs - $303 billion mandatory spending + $73 billion - 8% That's about 55% of the total on various parts of the safety net. [1] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56324 |
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