The Right’s Hypocrisy on Taxes Versus Welfare  An eye-popping
headline and article appeared on The Atlantic’s site last week:
Mitt Romney Would Pay 0.82 Percent in Taxes Under Paul Ryan’s
Plan.  The debate can be had as to whether this is accurate or
not but it is irrelevant to this post and one thing is clear. 
The right typically supports the idea of this result.  But a
question should be asked based on the right’s position on
welfare.  Why should one method of receiving money while not
working be commended while another be condemned?  I know what
the first argument from conservatives would be: because the
person making money off of capital gains earned the money they
used to invest at some point and someone on welfare only sat on
their behinds to get theirs from the government.  Some
individual instances can certainly be given of both but this
leads to another question.  Is the money always earned in the
case of someone who is investing and making their earnings off
of capital gains?  The answer, of course