In Iowa, Trump Voters Are Unfazed by Controversies

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10. Right there is something I don't understand

Anybody who has worked in the social service area, like I did, knows that nearly anybody who is getting some sort of welfare type benefit is not really making big money. Some people getting SS disability get a decent amount, but TANF, SNAP, SSI, the amount you get is paltry. Also since welfare reform you REALLY have to jump thru a bunch of hoops to get anything.

For instance subsidies that help farmers are WAY more generous to people who already have a pile of money than 200 bucks worth of food stamps a month.

Also with our progressive income tax most working class taxpayers don't pay a lot of federal income tax, so their concern about their tax dollars is overblown.

I am way more outraged by a kid who inherits a pile of money and can live off the interest without ever working a day in their life. Or the stock trader who thru gambling on the stock market or the CEO who lays off 5000 workers can cash out at 40 and never have to work again while the workers have to work till 70.

However we have not been good as a party or country at getting the immorality of the compensation of the wealthy involves, only the crumbs that fall from the table to the poor.