Posted on 06/28/2017 6:05:18 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
The Philadelphia Water Department next month will launch a low-income assistance program that offers payments starting at $12 per month and is open even to those who havent fallen behind on their bills. For those who have, that debt would be frozen indefinitely.
Officials are hoping to enroll upward of 50,000 households, five times those in the citys current program for low-income payers.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Another welfare program paid for by people who actually work.
Take a basic commodity. Artificially set a low price. Stand back and wait for the shortage...
Flippin commies - why would anybody with a job live in such a hell-hole?
From each we can steal from...
...to those we favor the most.
Income based means we will all be getting an added tax on our bill, when does this lunacy end
You nailed it. Expect to see more of it in the major US Progressive Ghettoes .... all run by Commie Democrats!
What could possibly go wrong? Flint where?
So essentially usage is no longer a consideration in calculating the bill. If the criterion is based on the customer’s income then the customer can use as much water as they want and their bill can never exceed a certain amount.
In most states the regulatory agency would not permit such a rate making scheme.
California is rolling out income based traffic tickets. When you get a ticket, the fine will be based on your ability to pay.
Income based cigarettes be like next whitey!
And Amazon is offering Prime memberships cheaper to low income persons.
IIRC finland tried that and the founder of nokia got a couple hundred thousand dollar fine for speeding.
“Take a basic commodity. Artificially set a low price. Stand back and wait for the shortage...”
They never effing learn.
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In the immortal words of Dr. King, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they can send the white man their water bill.”
What could possibly go wrong? Somebody has to pay the difference.
But I thought Zuckerberg and Van Jones were fixing things to make being anyone the same as anyone, just draw a name any name and you’ll be happy? Socialism it’s self.
“Eventually you will run out of the people who are actually paying.” I am in the last quarter of this great life on Earth. I am sorry to leave the prospects that face my survivors. A few think that a good future awaits them. I am pessimistic now, after living a life of optimism.
Commie Bastards! There, I fixed it.
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