Where does the money come from that goes to people who receive welfare?

Question

I am wondering- is it part of the taxes we pay that funds welfare? Where does all the money come from that funds welfare recipients? & why does the government continue to give people more & more when they keep having children?

Answer 1

Most low income housing projects are state owned or contacted by the state you live in. The taxes come from both federal and state but I don't know which one gives more. I personaly think there should be birth control police like in China. In China the federal government allows for only one child to be had for a couple.If the couple were to have a scond baby they would either have to get an abortion or pay a huge fine that is the equivelent of 5 years of income for a middle class China citizen. If the person has the baby and can not afford the money they will be forced to give the child up for adoption. I would'nt be in support of forcing parents to give up a child but I think that we shouldn't reward them for being careless.If a low income single mother of 3 is making 15k for the past 10yrs and she 9 months pregnant then she should only get  extra food stamps and no cash!If you want children you should have enough money to raise them! If the kid needs clothes then they can have some kind of prepaid card program that doesn't use cash. I'm sick of these low income housing people who do drugs all day  using there welfare money and make babys and then beg for money because there poor.

This is coming from a person who myself have been on welfare and food stamps right after highschool.  I think the welfars system is messed up because I found that whenever I found a decent job  I would no longer be able to draw welfare because they said my income was to high even thou I made less than15kperyear at 5.15perhr. I realized I couldn't make it  so I started to work less and refused to do any overtime and the system that was suppose to help me get off my feet just abruply left me hanging because I wanted to better my cause and so you just end up in the sameplace going nowere fast. By me intentionaly working less than 35 hours I would be able to stay in housing and only pay 10%of my income.Welfare programs should have the point in mind to actualy get people to make there own living and not just to get a job that pays a poverty wage. They think that if they get  someone to flip burgers for 5$dollars and hour that there job is done. They would be much better off paying for tech schools and education so the people would get a good paying job where they wont need anywelfare and thus saving tax payers from paying 2500 a month for a person who's flipping burgers for 5an hour and living in housing projects.I have since then got a contruction job that pays well and I'm fortunate I make enough money and remained single and have enough money to enjoy motorcycles and and fishing. But no thanks to the welfare system.

Answer 2

The money comes from taxes and more money is paid for each child because it is not the child's fault that the parents created it without the means to support it.  

Welfare reforms have occured in the last 10 years that have dramatically reduced the problem of providing incentives for welfare mothers to have more kids to increase the size of the welfare check.  Many states now require various steps to remain in the welfare system that are firm enough to induce welfare mothers to take the job training and child care offerings and get gainful employment.

Wisconsin had a groundbreaking welfare reform program back in the 1990's that was widely lauded as successful by many.  It required an initial investment by the state and federal government that cost more than just maintaining the old welfare system would have, on the theory that the only way to break the cycle of dependency was to provide job training and child care along with firm requirements to work your way out of welfare.   I believe the program is generally regarded as having worked over time economically.  There are some effects of the program that are still being studied, but its perceived here in Wisconsin as having been successful in moving a lot of families off the welfare rolls.

Answer 3

Well, to answer the first question, it comes from our tax dollars.  As to the second part...theoretically they get more money because they have increased need.  Maybe I'm heartless, but I believe that if you have to have government assistance to feed yourself, you should STOP HAVING CHILDREN!  Sorry.  Got a little rant-ish there for a moment...

Answer 4

I heard a radio announcer one day say something that he thought explained everything:

"It's trash paying trash to breed trash to vote for trash."

Answer 5

they give them more when the have children because that means they have more people to care for. The money partially may come from taxes you pay and mostly governemnt funds.

Answer 6

Taxpayers

Answer 7

You hit the nail right on the head!

It is funded with taxes collected from people like you and me and also collected from companies and corporations as well.

Why does the govt continue to give more and more when they keep having children, that's a very good question.  You'd think if these people had to depend upon welfare inorder to feed their current number of children, the govt would make a ruling that would not allow these people to continue to reproduce and therefore require additional welfare funds, but they don't, and I do not have the foggest idea why?

Answer 8

It is comes from taxes we paid, some from obligations; and grants from other countries.

The country needs a citizen population that supposedly shows triangle diagram, where the youth generation population is bigger. The demography  is a discipline of how a country could see its population growth. And most  of developed country will support the welfarens of their citizens for the reason will have a good and strong future generations. i hope you could get the meaning. thanks.

Answer 9

There are 300 million people in the US and11 million people in Aid to Families with Dependent Children...   65.8% are 18 and under... 28.1% are under 6 ...   which means that they have an average of about 2 children which is about the same as women not on welfare.

Answer 10

Trees.