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To: combjelly who wrote (588840)	10/5/2010 6:33:26 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575564

Can you cite a study that supports your assertion? The studies I've seen show a widely disproportionate share of govt benefits going to the non-wealthy.

To: combjelly who wrote (588840)	10/7/2010 7:59:09 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575564

You are making the assumption that the wealthy get little or no services from the government. I'm make no such assumption. The general provision of public goods isn't a transfer, and doesn't counterbalance other transfers. Direct transfer payments to the wealthy would, but the government gets most of its income from the wealthy while excluding them from many transfer programs. Even expanding beyond direct transfers, and counting all government services, the wealthy pay for most of the government's cost, while receiving only a fraction of its services. Many of the "services" are transfers, only a small part of which goes to the wealthy. The rest of what government spends is hardly all, or even mostly for the wealthy, and even if it was all for the wealthy its too small a part of the spending to balance the large part of the revenue that the government gets from those with high income.