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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAverage Taxpayer pays $36 a year to fund food stamps.. $670 to fund corporate subsidies.
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Average Taxpayer pays $36 a year to fund food stamps.. $670 to fund corporate subsidies. (Original Post)
applegrove
11 hrs ago
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NJCher
(39,857 posts)1. If this is true
(No source cited) we need to make an ad out of this.
J_William_Ryan
(2,671 posts)2. "...$670 to fund corporate subsidies."
Conservatives would lie that the subsidies would trickle down to average people creating jobs and lowering costs.
Haggard Celine
(17,152 posts)3. I found this. The figures seem accurate from what
I heard before. The difference is that this is talking about taxpayers and the OP is talking about an average across the entire population. That's what I think, anyway.
https://www.quora.com/How-much-do-food-stamps-cost-the-average-taxpayer
applegrove
(125,762 posts)4. Thanks.