Dean Baker confuses a subsidy with a cost to taxpayers

Dean Baker is still presuming that taxes fund the federal government, or at least using it club the opposition. He gets it right in the post, calling it a subsidy and one much larger than most needy people will be getting through the ACA. The Cruzes are needy? Really?


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