[ScruU2wice]

I was sitting in my college lounge just blowing off some time and me a group a kids started talking about our economic views. This lead to an avalanche of debate where there was one guys ranting about degenerating all welfare systems, privatizing schools, and deregulating businesses. Which in themselves maybe valid beliefs but everyone of his points ended up with me saying that anyone of the things he was talking about would generate polarization of economy with the rich getting slightly richer and poor becoming desperately poorer, to which his response was "that's fine, I don't care." or the classic "well it sucks for poor people." But he was definatally not opposed to the expense of building a three layer fence aloung the thousands of miles of mexican border, with trained snipers armerd with rubber bullets manning a guard tower every mile or so.

The only thing that got me was that he kept incesently saying that the majority of tax dollars collected by the government went into entitlement programs like medical insurance for low income families, and welfare and the such. He had no way of substantiating the point, so I just kept calling bullshit on it without being able for certain to say that he was wrong, so I'm wondering if someone has any good evidence to solidify this claim or denounce it. It won't dramatically shift my opinion either way, I'm just curious.