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- <text id=93TT2255>
- <title>
- Dec. 20, 1993: Who's Entitled? (Surprise!)
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Dec. 20, 1993 Enough! The War Over Handguns
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE BUDGET, Page 37
- Who's Entitled? (Surprise!)
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Most Americans who receive statutory government benefits are
- solidly middle class; some are decidedly well off. A few hypothetical
- examples:
- </p>
- <p>-- A couple in their late 60s with an income of $84,000 could
- also collect $27,000 in partly taxable Social Security and Medicare
- benefits.
- </p>
- <p>-- A middle-aged farmer with $150,000 of income would typically
- get more than $20,000 in agricultural subsidies.
- </p>
- <p>-- A retired Air Force colonel who earns $150,000 as an executive
- can still draw his full military pension of $46,000.
- </p>
- <p>-- A former Congressman with a civil-service pension, Social
- Security, a military reservist's pension and a federal widower's
- annuity might collect $110,000 in total government income.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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