Comparison of Poverty Rates Called "Unfair" [semi-satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 24 Sep 2017 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

In California the poverty rate is 20.4%. In Texas it is 14.7%. California Governor Jerry Brown (D) claimed "the heads-up comparison is unfair. Our income tax rate is 13.3%. Texas has no income tax. So each person in our state has to contribute more of his or her income before they get to spend any of it on themselves."

"We also have more regulations controlling where and how people can live and where and how businesses can operate," Brown added. "This makes housing less affordable and raises the prices businesses must charge in order to stay profitable. Naturally, that has impacts on poverty. If it costs more to house yourself and to buy things you're going to have a lower standard of living."

Brown contended that "we have gone to greater lengths to try to ameliorate the situation by making it easier to get welfare benefits. In Texas they have disincentives for relying on welfare. They try to push everyone into the work-a-day rat race on the premise that everyone ought to support himself if he can. For people who don't want to be a wage-slave the choices are stark. I'm proud to say that's not how it is in California. We respect an individual's aversion to work. Leisure is a lifestyle that ought to be attainable for everyone regardless of whether he can support this lifestyle from his own efforts. If we had the same kind of system they have in Texas over 500,000 more able-bodied Californians would be forced to take jobs just to live. If a higher poverty rate is the price we have to pay to avoid that kind of oppression I think most of our voters will accept that trade off."

if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,282325.0.html

[wmileo]

Deep down I think Gerry Pointed Head Brown really thinks like this.

[Artemis Webb]

""We also have more regulations controlling where and how people can live and where and how businesses can operate," Brown added. "This makes housing less affordable and raises the prices businesses must charge in order to stay profitable. Naturally, that has impacts on poverty. If it costs more to house yourself and to buy things you're going to have a lower standard of living."
--Jerry Brown

It's amazing how much Gov Brown understands yet refuses to do the things that he knows will help the citizens of California. As the quotation from The Outlaw Josey Wales goes, "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's rainin'".

[Da Coyote]

I have claimed many times that math is not a friend of libs.
QED (which is Latin for “Brown is an ignorant buttwipe.”)
No, really. :-)

[sparklite2]

each person in our state has to contribute more of his or her income before they get to spend any of it on themselves

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Moonbeam thinks this is a selling point.

[sparklite2]

people who don’t want to be a wage-slave ...

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... can work for themselves or starve.
Makes no difference to me.

[kallisti]

I’ve enjoyed you for years, but I have to say that, of late, reality outpaces satire.

[MV=PY]

Perfect satire, made me LOL!

Thanks for posting.

[oldtech]

If I’m reading this right,Gov. Brown’s theory is to make it difficult to make a living in Calif.,but then you compensate by making it easier to get on welfare. How could that possibly go wrong?