The EIC and other welfare programs foster this behavior. Tax day in many ‘impoverished’ neighborhoods is the day when several thousands of dollars in ‘tax refunds’ are doled out to people who never earned the income to produce the ‘refunds’ in the first place. Those several thousands of dollars come from you and me.
But that is better than minimum wage increases. EIC goes only to folks who do work, correct?
And “mother’s day” comes once a month — that day when money floods into the community, and into the pockets of guys who have “girlfriends.”