Posted on 02/09/2015 9:36:07 AM PST by Kyle Olson
““The current welfare system provides such a high level of benefits that it acts as a disincentive for work,” Tanner and Hughes write in their new paper. “Welfare currently pays more than a minimum-wage job in 35 states, even after accounting for the Earned Income Tax Credit,” which offers extra subsidies to low-income workers who take work. “In 13 states [welfare] pays more than $15 per hour.”
Two words: Home school.
Of course. Conservatives tend to support charities, and liberals tend to want people to be babied by the government.
The title and its supposition are in error. Conservatives believing turning over charity to government entitlement programs is a waste of money, that the poor are helped most by directly helping the poor, not passing the money first to the politicians.
The numbers do not lie. The massive government entitlements do not make most of the poor into non-poor. The whole entire effort simply adds more wards to the government plantation society, where their numbers do not show them leaving the ranks of the poor, but simply increasing how many are financial wards of the government.
100% agree. The questions on this test are garbled nonsense. How can someone actually come up with the correct answer?
Conservatives are more likely to ask the pertinent questions:
1. who are the poor?
2. what is the best way to help them?
Liberals really care about to the poor only to the extent that they can use them as a club to beat (shame) conservatives.
Johnson’s War on Poverty and The Great Society?
Poverty won.
And that is the actual problem. It isn’t benevolence; it is treating government as a foster parent.
It’s a way to control the masses of uneducated, violent, lazy people. Reminds me of “Animal Farm”.
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