Whose Welfare is it Anyway?

Well, I guess you've got me there. The Democrats really are the voice for the people, because they take from the rich and give to the poor like Robin Hood. Well let's look at the situation a little closer though. First off, the welfare program usually doesn't help the poor, just the unemployed who are not contributing to society. In many cases people are told that if they do start working they will be kicked off any kind of welfare they may be receiving. So we see that it's the lazy not the poor who usually get those benefits. At least the money for this comes mainly from the rich..........right? Well, let's examine the rich people a bit. First off, wealthy people usually can afford good tax preparer's who get them lots of deductions. Some of the richest people are the shareholders of giant companies. An S-Corp pays no medicaid, medicare, or any other welfare from it's actual profit. The company only pays into it when they pay an employee's wages. The company pays approx 7.5%, and that is matched by the employee. After paying the employees, the rest of the money is subect to federal and state taxes on the shareholder's personal income taxes, but not the welfare taxes. This untaxed portion is generally the large maority of that money. Looking even closer at that situation, that means that approx 15% of an employees checks are taxed for welfare, whether it be by the corporation or the employee. If you took that 15% and didn't tax it, you would immediately have less poverty. For example, a person who makes $10.00 per hour and works full time makes about $1800.00 a month. That's too much money made to qualify for welfare. After taxes and bills to pay, he usually has no extra money at the end of each month, but let's give him a 15% raise (If we took away the welfare taxes we could). Now he makes about $2100.00 a month. He can take that $300.00 per month raise and save for his future by wisely investing it, which also helps the economy, so we don't have to all pay for him to retire and live off our hard work. You may ask, what if he spends this money in other ways and doesn't save, are we just going to let him die? He doesn't have to die, but he should have saved his money, and it's his own fault. He would just have to keep working. By the democrat's views it is all of our people's fault that he didn't save up, and we all have to share the cost for his poor choices. Now hopefully you see that once again the democratic stance is not for the people, but this illusion they've created fools many into thinking otherwise.