Obama: Hides how large social entitlements actually are
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:55 am
All the calculations provided by the White House describe national defense as the largest federal government spending program, although Social Security and Medicare entitlement spending is, collectively, larger. Those entitlement programs are administered through payroll taxes, which the White House calculator treats as separate from other tax dollars.
The Obama administration is attempting to 'cut data from the spending side, likely to avoid showing how much SS and Medicare take out of the budget,' National Taxpayers Union spokesman Douglas Kellogg told MailOnline, 'with the added bonus of [Department of] Defense spending appearing to be government's biggest expense.
'Workers and business owners who are paying Social Security and Medicare taxes right out of their paychecks are likely not interested in separating them into a special category and pretending they never happened,' Kellogg added.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2309480/Triple-income-Pay-10-TIMES-national-defense-food-stamps-Obama-tax-day-receipt-website-makes-nearly-impossible-out.html