Uh oh!

[Anonymous]

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/07/08/half-of-us-social-pr.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

Curious to see how all those railing against the "social parasites" justify their actions as being less parasitic...

[Anonymous]

Maybe we should make a line item on tax returns that calculates: Your Total Government Benefits. Then people would know how many freebies they had been given.

Apparently we do not see a tax credit as welfare, even though that was exactly what Reagan had in mind when he took the idea from a fringe concept to a mainstream giveaway.

We do not see social security/medicare as a social benefit, probably because we erroneously think that we pay a fair premium, but of course we don't.

The only one I would pick on is GI bill. If I understand the program correctly, it is used as a recruiting tool and in that sense may be the equivalent of a hiring bonus.

[Anonymous]

And of course no one looks at mortgage deductions as welfare. WTF else is it?