LePage: More Mainers receiving welfare than paying taxes

[formerlurker]

LePage: More Mainers receiving welfare than paying taxes
By Clarke Canfield, The Associated Press
Posted Dec. 17, 2011, at 12:22 p.m.   
Last modified Dec. 19, 2011, at 9:35 a.m.

PORTLAND, Maine — There are more Mainers receiving welfare benefits than there are income tax filers paying taxes, Republican Gov. Paul LePage said Saturday.

But Democrats said LePage’s numbers are deceptive and not entirely truthful.

In reiterating his call for the need to cut human services programs to save money, the governor said in his weekly radio address that Maine had 453,000 people receiving welfare benefits in 2010. At the same time, he said, the state had only 445,000 tax filers who paid taxes.

http://bangordailynews.com/2011/12/17/news/state/lepage-says-maines-welfare-numbers-are-bloated/


How many of the misfits reside in Maine? 

[NHSparky]

Besides vesta?

[Gina]

Besides vesta?

she did vote for Obama, cut her some slack.  She isn't all there 

[JohnnyReb]

As a taxpayer, I always felt like I had a monkey Mainer on my back. Now I know there was.

[NHSparky]

As a taxpayer, I always felt like I had a monkey Mainer on my back. Now I know there was.

Considering STATE taxes pay for most of those benefits, you can imagine how little drive some folks in Maine have to work.

[docstew]

Can we propose a change of terminology?

Taxpayer should change to "Net Tax Dollar Contributor"

Welfare recipient should change to "Net Tax Dollar Taker"

I'm tired of reading stories where the source of welfare funds isn't identified, as if it comes from some magical pool that never runs out.

[Karin]

Vesta voted for Obama?   

Mainers love their government checks.  I'm surprised they elected a Republican governor. 
Many of them have no problem living in shacks in abject poverty, as long as it's free.  It surprised me when I moved there.  I always considered it a land of the rugged individualist, proud and self-sufficient.  Not so. 

[Eupher]

Can we propose a change of terminology?

Taxpayer should change to "Net Tax Dollar ContributorBleeder"

Welfare recipient should change to "Net Tax Dollar TakerExtortionist"

I'm tired of reading stories where the source of welfare funds isn't identified, as if it comes from some magical pool that never runs out.

FIFY

[zeitgeist]

Vesta voted for Obama?   

Mainers love their government checks.  I'm surprised they elected a Republican governor. 
Many of them have no problem living in shacks in abject poverty, as long as it's free.  It surprised me when I moved there.  I always considered it a land of the rugged individualist, proud and self-sufficient.  Not so. 

Not nearly as surprised as they were.  It was a three way IIRC.  Funny things can happen when you get into that $hit.

Remember Maine was a part of Massachusetts and still Maine-tains a symbiotic relationship with the mother state. ( or nanny state if you prefer )

[NHSparky]

It's gotta tell you how Mass is so ****ed up that TWO states split off from them.

Yet those same two states, 200 years later, are just as moonbat infested as Mass.

Note: It's always a good trivia question to have libtards try to name all 13 colonies, and how many of them screw up by mentioning VT or Maine.

[zeitgeist]

It's gotta tell you how Mass is so ****ed up that TWO states split off from them.

Yet those same two states, 200 years later, are just as moonbat infested as Mass.

Note: It's always a good trivia question to have libtards try to name all 13 colonies, and how many of them screw up by mentioning VT or Maine.

And which were the ones undone when you needed to wizz in a hurry?     (Cracker Jacks reference unless one was hung like a hamster)

[Chris_]

Note: It's always a good trivia question to have libtards try to name all 13 colonies, and how many of them screw up by mentioning VT or Maine.

That may or may not be part of the current US citizenship test.  It's full of basic (elementary/grade school) questions about civics and history.  It's embarrassing how easy the questions I saw were, and how many of my coworkers at the time had no clue what the answers are.