Comments by "k98killer" (@k98killer) on "Lower Everyones Taxes and Stop Killing Third World Children" video.

  1. There is only one tax I don't mind paying: the 10-11% (wholesale value) firearm and ammunition tax that goes into the Federal Wildlife Restoration fund (Pittman-Robertson Act) and is distributed to state conservation projects to maintain public hunting grounds and gun ranges. Everything else annoys me relentlessly.
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  2. You're way off and should probably correct your comment. "The overhead and administrative costs for most programs are modest, generally under 5%." -- Cato Handbook for Policymakers ยง 41. Poverty and Welfare, the Cato Institute, 2017 "It is often assumed that program consolidation will reduce costs by reducing administrative overhead, but the overhead costs in welfare are typically less than 10 percent; therefore, it is not likely that consolidation will substantially reduce spending." -- Understanding the Hidden $1.1 Trillion Welfare System and How to Reform It, the Heritage Foundation, 2018 Edit: the closest thing I could find to an argument of inefficiency was a left-wing article complaining that welfare has gradually shifted from "cash assistance" wealth redistribution to things like child care, addiction treatment, and domestic violence services, but even it showed the administrative overhead as decreasing from ~10% in 1998 to ~8% in 2014. (This article then says that California gives half its welfare grant money directly as cash assistance while Georgia spends 80% on social programs -- imo, Georgia is less of a literal shithole than California, so the comparison does not help the pro-communism argument.)
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