Tucker Carlson: “Do you we have any sense of what percentage of the American…”

“So they bump that to 18.1 and federal spending is going to be about 23.4, 23.5%. So that deficit spending, where does that money come from? We borrow it or we print it. Okay. Do you we have any sense of what percentage of the American population, 350 million or whatever it is in that range are net receivers get more from government than they pay in. My guess, it's more than 50%. And of course, that's the death knell of a democracy, is when the population, the voting public, realizes they can vote themselves benefits at the expense of somebody else.” (07:46–07:58)

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