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You Should Be Able To See The Obvious ...
... but I have some remarks anyway.

If you consider TARP being considered a form of welfare, and most do, then only 6 cents out of every tax dollars goes toward providing welfare services to those who can't provide for themselves. If you don't, the figure increases all the way up to ... 9 cents
The other $ .91 or 91% of your taxes go support the operations of the government or defense. You ultimately get the Social Security and Medicare back.
Individual income taxes only provide 26 cents of the revenue dollar needed to fund the 2010 expenditures. 37 cents came for other revenue sources and the last 37 cents was borrowed.

I hate old age, and heard something today on CNN's Cafferty's File that brought to mind again. An e-mail response to one of Cafferty's questions regarding raising taxes on the wealthy got a response that went something like this: "Why should the money the wealthy worked hard for be transferred to the poor who hardly work at all." Actually, it wasn't the cut-and-dried but that was the implication. There was nothing in the response about helping fellow Americans fellow American's brought low because of the unethical conduct of many of those same wealthy tax payers. But I digress; that is...