Posted on 08/07/2021 4:17:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
Just when you thought she couldn’t possibly do anything dumber, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) wants to cancel Americans’ utility debt, and she totally redeemed herself.
No, this is not a joke. This is America in 2021.
Tlaib, a founding member of the so-called Squad, has introduced a bill that would literally eliminate Americans’ outstanding debt on water, electricity, internet, etc.
According to Tlaib, “Utility shutoffs—from water to electricity to broadband internet—leave our most vulnerable communities without essential life-sustaining services and are especially unacceptable during a deadly pandemic.”
She added, “Low-income Michigan families pay more than 30 percent of their household income on utility bills alone, creating a direct path to debt and eviction, [which] makes the issue that much more pertinent. We have to break the cycle and ensure folks can keep their lights on, their water running, and the roofs over their head.”
So, landlords cannot evict people who do not pay their rent, thanks to the Centers for Disease Control’s unconstitutional proclamation of an eviction moratorium.
And, utility companies cannot shut off service to people who do not pay their bills.
Is it just me, or is American society upside-down?
Of course, Tlaib makes no rational or logical argument to support her utility debt cancelation policy.
Instead, like most on the left nowadays, she uses emotions and feelings to guide her public policy positions. That is no way to govern a country.
If we learned anything over the past few hundred years, it is that public policy is best made when it is fair and logical. After all, wasn’t that the entire point of the Enlightenment? And the American Founding?
However, this does not resonate with Tlaib. In her worldview, Marxism is the name of the game.
Tlaib, like her colleagues in the Squad, is a socialist. She buys into the oppressor v. oppressed narrative, hook, line, and sinker.
In her misguided mind, people at the bottom rungs of the economic ladder are in an eternal state of oppression. Such is why they need her to save them from the oppressors, or so she believes.
But, in reality, her foolish policies have the opposite effect. By constantly decrying the position of the downtrodden, she makes these people into eternal victims.
Her bigotry of low expectations, which is part and parcel for the left these days, does not uplift these people. Instead, it keeps them in a perpetual state of government dependence.
Yes, leftists like Rashida Tlaib, whether wittingly or unwittingly, are at least partially responsible for the cycle of poverty that has manifested throughout the nation since the colossal failure of the so-called War on Poverty.
One would assume that after more than six decades of government transfers and expanded welfare programs, with little effect on the poverty rate, that this would be apparent. Alas, it is not.
The answer from leftists is always more wealth redistribution. From a universal basic income (which Tlaib ardently supports) to “free” college, the left’s calls for more government hand-outs is insatiable.
However, these gimmicks will not solve the root causes that have led so many Americans into this perilous situation.
If Tlaib, and those in the Squad, actually want to address generational poverty, canceling utility debt is not the solution. Neither is a universal basic income.
On the other hand, education choice would make a world of a difference in stopping the cycle of poverty. As would economic policies that incentivize job creation in demoralized areas of America’s inner cities.
Perhaps Tlaib and her comrades should push for lower taxes, reduced regulations, professional licensure reform, and a host of other policies that have been proven to help pull Americans from poverty.
Unfortunately, the odds of that happening are about one in a million. On the bright side, at least there is a chance.
She means that Whiteys will be forced into slavery, working for a pittance, having most of it taken in taxes, so non-Whiteys can have free things and have an excuse to hate Whitey.
Their plan: take all of Whitey’s money, and then eliminate Whitey.
She is an economic terrorist.
Mf’r Tlaib is an insult to human mentality.
How about we cancel Tlaib
She should have never been allowed to run for office other than maybe dog catcher.
I can’t tell you how many of my renters skipped out on their electric bill. You’d think that people having money troubles would cut back on the AC or cable TV. Nope. Nor do they cut back on eating out or drugs. (Especially drugs.) Gen Z has no concept of how to manage money or their lives.
I was surprised the first time it happened that the company didn’t come after me, the landlord. Instead, the next time the house is rented, the amount of deposit goes up. So, the next people suffer for the excesses of the last people. This seems to work, managing the unpaid power bill by raising the deposit on the next renter. BTW, my main company is Talquin Electric Cooperative. If you pay your bills in a timely fashion they eventually let you use the deposit to pay the bill.
Pretty scary this woman occupies a seat in our legislative body.
I was in property management back in the 70’s (family investments) and even then we had renters skip out. I can’t imagine a worse investment than low cost housing rentals. So what that means is the government will build more housing paid for by the taxpayers and which becomes a breeding ground for gangs of fatherless kids. What a great idea.
Since I keep paying my mortgage, and I am not behind on any of my utilities, internet, cell phone bills, can they just cut me a check for 3 months of those bills?
/sarc - of course not, I’m a 51 year old heterosexual Caucasian widowed male.
Most Muslims do not migrate to a country to assimilate but to conquer and establish a Caliphate under Sharia Law as the Quran tells them to do. So don’t expect the squad Muslims to ever propose anything that would benefit this country.
So who is going to “cancel” the expenses of the utility companies, e.g. payroll, materials, fuel?
These idiots are on a mission to send us back to the dark ages. If they had their way, we’d be living in huts without electricity, food, toilet paper, running water, paved roads or gasoline.
Cancel Tlaib!
I’m starting to think those of us paying our bills are the fools
Then who’s money will they take?
(I know they are incapable of thinking that far ahead)
I guess I was old school poor in the 80’s as a kid. If a bill is not paid, doom on my parents. They found ways and worked harder to make things right. Government at any level was not a bailout system.
She’s an idiot.
Most Muslims
do not migrate to a country to assimilate but to conquer and establish a Caliphate under Sharia Law as the Quran tells them to do. So don’t expect the squad Muslims to ever propose anything that would benefit this country.
12 posted on 8/7/2021, 5:40:05 AM by antidemoncrat
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Yup.
Not all Muslims ,
just the ones following the Koran.
It says what it says.
They aren’t called Jihad squad for giggles.
.Islam loves it some nazies, commies and fascists, just review who’s side it was on in ww2.
What verses would those be?
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