where the risk comes is the magnitude of these expansions just who s getting benefit. you mentioned this expansion is the largest since the great society. this expansion is different than the great society expansion. if you set medicare aside, great society expansions were primarily in programs for the poor. what we are seeing here in the biden family plan is expansion of programs designed primarily for the middle class. we estimate about 40% of all the entitlement benefits under the biden family plan will end up going to individuals in the upper half of the income distribution so it s basically middle-class entitlement program and would be especially hard to repeat later on.
income, higher levels of diversity in the democratic areas. older, less educated whites dominating in the republican-led areas and you saw that in the 2016 presidential election. hillary clinton only hillary clinton only carried fewer than 500 counties. donald trump carried 2500 but her county counted for two third of the gross domestic product. is this a continuation of economy we saw in the 2016 election? yes. they are drifting further apart though. the rest of the country should be hoping for the success of that economy because that s going to be necessary to pay for government services, entitlement benefits and that sort of thing. the metropolitan policy program
mark liquor berg thinks the government should hand out free money. the college dropout calling for entitlement benefits and his harvard commencement speech. now it is time for our generation to define a new social contract as we should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure everyone has a cushion to try new ideas. heather: zuckerberg is worth $63 billion. he quit harvard after creating facebook 13 years ago. the school giving him an honorary degree at graduation. rob: a christian school defending its decision to block a pregnant student from participating in her graduation ceremony, she is not being punished but rather this decision is for being immoral
to trade jobs for entitlement benefits. by facts, the white house means the report is positive because individuals will be empowered to make choices about their own lives and livelihoods, and, quote, have the opportunity to pursue their dreams, unquote. there you have it, the wall street journal says, the new american dream of not working. and that was, pretty remarkable, jay carney said, no, this is great, this allows people not to work, they can stay at home. we re not talking about people that just sold their third business. we re talking about people choosing to be on entitlement programs instead of working. the cbo says themselves the law s insurance subsidies are gradually taking away income rises, creating an implicit tax on additional earnings. donny, this cbo report is not as clear-cut as far as i actually think more people will lose their jobs, because employees employers are just not going to hire additional people.
about a lot of these issues we have been talking about. on this issue, we talk about entitlements and how much entitlements are blowing a hole in the deficit. a big problem is because our birth rate has decreased and you wind up seeing there are fewer people able to support a retiring segment of folks who are getting entitlement benefits. so because of that in a very clumsy, awkward way, he was trying to explain that you have hispanic immigrants, hard core procatholic, very catholic, having a lot of kids, more kids than the birth rate of the rest of the country, kind of like the way italian and irish immigrants did years ago. in generations later, a fewer number of children as they assimilate more into the american culture. a real clunky way to get to it and distracted from his larger point where he was trying to push to comprehensive immigration reform, trying to talk about family in front of a faith and freedom coalition