Libertarian ping! To be added or removed freepmail me or post a message here.Handouts just keep people from getting jobs and taking care of themselves. Government handouts don’t work. There are generations of families that have never worked.
Libertarian ping! To be added or removed freepmail me or post a message here. You can be wealthy and low-income at the same time, and you can also be be poor and high-income at the same time.
I’ve been as poor as any person in this country but my home was never trashy or dirty. I didn’t have the means to go to expensive schools but I am hardly uneducated. I have few material goods but not one thing I do have was dishonestly obtained. I learned from others that not running afoul of the law saves a lot of money.
So by some definitions I am and have been poor all my life but I’ve never considered myself impoverished.
I’m sure most of the posters and readers know the difference.
Have I ever received any sort of government assistance? Sure, I’ve used programs that my tax dollars had supported but the key word is here is assistance not a livlihood, not living on others work when I could care for my own needs.
Assistance as a last resort and as a very temporary event, not as a means of avoiding the burdens and rewards of providing for myself.
Money has never reduced the poverty of character, spirit if you will, hence it cannot reduce the number of members of society who are poor due to their poverty.
A trillion dollars in the hands of small businesses would have created millions of jobs and done more for the war on poverty than all welfare programs put together. A more logical approach would have been to create tax free zones in areas of high poverty.
An argument of possible merit, depending on the numbers.
btt