The average American pays $36 in taxes each year to fund food stamps. That same American pays $670 in taxes each year for corporate subsides.

The claim breaks down into two parts: the average tax contribution to food stamps and to corporate subsidies. The $36 figure for food stamps appears frequently in social media posts,facebook.comfacebook.comThe average American pays $36 in taxes each year to fundskeptics.stackexchange.comskeptics.stackexchange.comunited states - Does an American taxpayer fund $870 in corporate subsidies for... but fact-checking sources like PolitiFactpolitifact.compolitifact.comA Facebook post misleadingly compares how the government spends money collected... indicate that such comparisons are misleading because they do not account for the complexity of tax revenue allocation and government spending. Regarding corporate subsidies, the claim states $670 per American annually. However, other sources provide varying estimates. For example, a Des Moines Register opinion piecedesmoinesregister.comdesmoinesregister.comHow much does welfare cost the average taxpayer? cites corporate welfare costs as high as $6,000 per family annually, which is much higher than $670 per individual, suggesting wide variability depending on definitions and calculations. Skeptics Stack Exchangethreads.comthreads.comThe average American pays $36 in taxes each year to fund discusses that the numbers for food stamps and corporate subsidies are not directly comparable due to differences in program costs and how averages are calculated.

Overall, while there is some basis for the approximate $36 figure related to food stamps per taxpayer, the corporate subsidy figure is less certain and varies widely depending on methodology. The claim simplifies complex budgetary data into neat per capita amounts without clarifying assumptions or context, making it misleading rather than strictly true or false.