THE REAL WELFARE FRAUD
More shocking than the fraud in Minnesota that has been making headlines is the real federal welfare spending. It has soared by 765%. That is more than twice as fast as total federal spending. In 1975, the country’s real per-capita gross domestic product had grown by 142%. It now costs $1.4 trillion annually. Were that money doled out evenly to the 19.8 million families the government defines as poor, each household would receive more than $70,000 a year.”
Who would go back to work? We have known about this for years, but nothing ever changes.
How This Happens
The source of this dramatic mismatch is the fraud built into how various programs determine welfare eligibility: The government doesn’t count any refundable tax credits or benefits that aren’t paid in cash as income to the recipients. Proponents say that makes sense because recipients can’t spend money as they’d like, but that argument is specious since all money is fungible.
Since the government doesn’t allow welfare to be counted as income. This allows welfare households to blow past the income level above which a working family no longer qualifies for government help.
The Mind-Blowing Example from the WSJ article by Phil Gamm and Jim Early
Take a single parent with two school-age children who earns $11,000 annually from part-time work. The government considers this household in poverty because its income is below $25,273. But this family would qualify for benefits worth $53,128. It would receive Treasury checks of $3,400 in refundable child tax credits and $4,400 in refundable earned-income tax credits. The family would also receive Food Stamp debit cards worth $9,216 a year, $9,476 in housing subsidies, $877 of government payments for utility bills, $16,033 to fund Medicaid, $3,102 in free meals at school, and $6,624 in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. All this puts the family’s income at $64,128, or 254% of the poverty level.
It punishes work
The proportion of poor people in the U.S. falls from more than 10% to less than 1%.
This unjust system also penalizes work. Unsurprisingly, the percentage of work-age persons in the bottom 20% of income who in fact work has in the last 50 years fallen from 68% to 36%.
A hardworking family earning anything like $64,128 in salary wouldn’t be eligible for any of these welfare benefits in four-fifths of the states. Meanwhile, the welfare family would be eligible for another 90 small federal benefits and sundry state and local welfare programs.
Clearly, this is not sustainable, and one reason why we have $38 trillion in debt.
It could be solved easily, the author of the WSJ piece writes:
If the government simply gave every poor family in America enough money to raise its income above the official poverty level, it would cost only $240 billion. That would reduce the annual deficit by two-thirds.
MINNESOTA
The mostly Somali fraud in welfare and programs for autistic children alone is only the beginning.
OMG 🚨
Liz Collin personally went to a dozen sites, found empty – adult day cares – Autism clinics with no kids – but the parking lot had luxury cars parked in front
The fraud in Minnesota, has gone from ($1B) to ($18B) and neither Tim Walz or Ilhan Omar have been indicted yet… pic.twitter.com/cWPHMJXnNf
— @Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 (@Chicago1Ray) December 19, 2025
Thirty-three percent of Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDL) were given unlawfully in Minnesota. This is another type of fraud.
🍿 Is the “Tim Walz Show” that we’ve witnessed over the last ~17 months all starting to make sense now?
“Tampon Tim” was Thrust into the National spotlight when “Biden” decided to step aside and the White Hat “dream team” of Harris & Walz was formed.
Then the absurdities… pic.twitter.com/q4OzxwAOfW
— NewsTreason Channel 17 (@NewsTreason) December 2, 2025
WISCONSIN
Rep. Tiffany called for Gov. Evers to cooperate with the USDA audit in a letter. It’s unlikely it will make a difference. Evers doesn’t even have to give a decent reason, and the people of Wisconsin seem fine with that. The worst people are in charge in the USA.
This is Gov. Evers’ response. Is this really adequate for Wisconsonites?
WATCH: Wisconsin Democrats are refusing to hand over food stamp data that the USDA needs to check for fraud, dead beneficiaries, and illegal aliens.
Why refuse transparency? What are they covering up? Are Minnesota-style problems happening here too? pic.twitter.com/kjralbGX9y
— Rep. Tom Tiffany (@RepTiffany) December 3, 2025
COLORADO
HUD Colorado is under investigation after a brutal internal HUD audit uncovered 221 deceased individuals receiving federal housing assistance in the state, plus 87 other ineligible recipients and 2,519 cases needing review, mostly at the Denver Housing Authority.
HUD is ordering the state’s 59 public housing agencies to verify all beneficiaries, remove the ineligible, and repay improper funds from the $440 million provided yearly for about 38,000 units.
Even Dead People can get homes in Colorado.
Housing has long been a cash cow in many states. The homeless are still wandering around, but at least the dead are well-housed.
In Colorado, we are taking action to build more homes, lower costs, and save Colorado families money, and the HOME Act does exactly that. Thank you Representative Andy Boesenecker @rep_boesenecker for your leadership on making it easier to afford to live in our great state pic.twitter.com/cozTcWvGTk
— Governor Jared Polis (@GovofCO) December 21, 2025
Fact is, the constitution provides NO foundation for any welfare spending by the federal government.
OK, I’ll say it again. Government should NEVER use taxpayers money for philanthropic purposes.
Democrats are fine with that fraud because a percentage of it goes back to them…ya know like when Joe Biden was getting his 10% ?
This is the Cloward-Piven Strategy on hyperdrive!