# Federal Pensions cost $70 billion a year

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**Created:** [April 10, 2013, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/federal-pensions-cost-70-billion-a-year/266745 "2013-04-10T10:43:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/federal-pensions-cost-70-billion-a-year/266745/27 "2013-04-17T12:21:17Z")

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> [@Sunoco 93 \> Mobil 93](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sunoco-93-mobil-93/52400/17):
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> You’re right. Everyone pays some tax at some point in their life. However, would you agree that a person on welfare who goes to the ATM, gets 100 bucks in cash out and goes to buy a pair of sneakers isn’t really adding to the system?
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> Its sort of like people on unemployment paying income tax.

economists would actually argue that they are adding to the system by going out and buying a pair of shoes and supporting a business, doesn’t matter where the money comes from.

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