The idea that 53% of people live off of welfare without contributing to society in any way seems pretty far-fetched.

What percentage of immigrants being dependents on welfare would you consider reasonable?

You've missed the original point. Someone can be working a job and realistically pulling their own weight, but the system we have distributes that money to the owners and investors, who then pay tax and give some part back to the worker through welfare.

The country is better off having this person even if they are receiving welfare. Of course that's not the situation for all people on welfare, but the idea that the top percent of earners are doing all the work while the majority of people sit around getting stuff for free is obviously untrue.

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But is populists wet dream

I think I heard a crazy high number for how many in the u.s. use foodstamps? 12.3% according to this: https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-people-receive-snap-be...

That doesn't necessarily mean recipients are unemployed. It could mean taxpayers are subsidizing low-wage employers through public assistance to their employees, with a minimum wage that hasn't increased since 2009.

And in some communities it's 90% and collected by people driving BMWs.

Haha reminds me of the postal worker hinting that a lot of welfare cheques go to some affluent neighborhood in Vancouver. The business owns the house and the Lexus!

The fact that we're assuming the tax code is correct and that humans are faulty for not measuring up to it is wild.