claim: "when you add a dollar value to mandates," government took almost 50 percent "of the american people’s money."
author: larry elder
evidence_1: nov 14, 2013 ... ... took less than 10 percent of the american people's money. now ... 3) on  amount government takes at all levels when you "add a dollar value to mandates" : i said, "almost 50 percent. ... "you've admitted that the first two were correct,  leaving us with the 'cost' of mandates as our only unresolved issue.
evidence_2: feb 16, 2015 ... the postal service has set-aside cash totals of more than $335 billion for ... its  pension plans are nearly completely funded and its retiree healthcare liability is  50 percent ... mandating 100 percent prefunding of future liabilities that are ..... of  he amount of 5.8 billion dollars a year for people that haven't even ...
evidence_3: feb 15, 2018 ... the cuts this budget provision represents — an average 40 percent of snap ... 1)  reduce the amount of food that low-income americans have each ... costs far  exceed the funds the federal government provides and that they ..... or almost 50  percent of the current monthly snap benefit this group receives.
evidence_4: jun 13, 2016 ... for starters, there are federally mandated charges, plus state and local taxes ...  and the average u.s. wireless customer pays nearly 18% in federal, state ... the  tax rate on cell phone bills has increased nearly three percentage points ...  money gathered staffers' bills from the last month to show you where ...
evidence_5: feb 22, 2018 ... pricing out two proposed ideas for adding guns to schools. ... “a lot of people are  talking about it — it's certainly a point that we'll discuss ... because that's pretty  much the number, and you said it — an attack has ... we would essentially be  adding 50 percent to the size of the military by mandating that nearly ...