what bull crap! children are included in welfare recipients that can not possibly be workers or tax payers....le page is a skunk, dumb, and a LIAR.....Another Progressive Success, Maine- Welfare recipients outnumber taxpayers
Comrades
good news today
Finally, we have a success
h/t Moonbattery
Bangor Daily News
discovered that 445,074 Mainers paid state income tax, while 453,194 received some sort of state aid.
In Maine, Medicaid, welfare, food stamps and subsidies for education have a combined enrollment of 660,000.
Adjusting for overlap reduces the number to 453,194 or 8,120 more people on state assistance than there are state income taxpayers in Maine.
Forbes: LePage welfare quotes inaccurate — Maine Politics — Bangor Daily News
Gov. Paul LePage on Wednesday told a crowd of 100 people that a Forbes representative told his office the state must cut spending, reduce energy costs and address structural problems which LePage interpreted as welfare or the state would continue to be in the cellar of the magazines rankings of the best states for business.
Forbes says it told the governors office no such thing.
I certainly didnt say anything about welfare costs, which has nothing to do with the ranking that we do, said Forbes senior editor Kurt Badenhausen, who spoke to the governors office when it called the magazine. I didnt tell them they needed to reduce energy costs. I told them, basically, the best thing they could do, and that any local government could do, was just to try and create more jobs.