I believe I did it right to arrive at a welfare figure of approximately $162.47 per person in Los Angeles county at an estimated 2009 population figure of 9848011 with a $1600000000.00 cost.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06037.html
Housing units 2009 3,390,795 Approximately $471.87 per household.
The questions to me are:
How may individuals are Taxpayers? Children, welfare recipients, people who work for cash, non working spouses or "household partners" and those running criminal enterprises generally do not pay income taxes.
What is the tax burden of this welfare per tax paying individual in Los Angeles County?
How much money is diverted around sales and other taxes?
Thinking out loud... The welfare cost burden per person divided into household welfare burden figure is 2.9 people per household, and population divided by household comes to 2.9 per household.
Hmmmmm. Somehow, this doesn't sound right.
LA County's 2010 - 2011 budget is 23.175 Billion.
http://file.lacounty.gov/lac/cms1_151209.pdf
Of this:
Social Services 24%
Health 22%
Public protection 20%
Special funds / district 23%
Other 11%
LA County's income / Resources 23.175 Billion
Property taxes 20%
Federal assistance 22%
State assistance 22%
Other 36%
1.6 billion for direct welfare costs according to Antonovich equals almost 7% of the total budget.
Per household share of both budget and resources equals $6834.68.
Locally generated revenue is only $6.034 Billion, less than 27% of the budget.
Social services and health alone are 64% of the budget.
WOW.
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