Originally Posted by Guest

Everyone does pay taxes. Social security, Medicare, gasoline, and sales taxes. If they rent, indirectly they are paying property taxes.

Bush's biggest tax cuts went to the people in the 39.6% tax bracket.

Take a look the chart of the 2014 budget. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United..._-_FY_2011.png

The two biggest categories are social security, and Medicare. The Republicans largest group of supporters are older Americans. Socialism seems to be working fine for us. It takes gall to complain about everybody else. We are the biggest takers. Sure we paid into the program for 30-40 years, but that money wasn't put aside for us. It was paid to people that were collecting at the time. If they put the plug on social security, which they won't do, we would be out of luck. We are not entitled to social security.

Defense spending is greater than discretionary spending. Constitution mandates national defense, but not at the cost of everything else.