Since when does big government spending 'alleviate poverty'? The Washington Post makes an ignorant claim about poverty.

American Thinker ^ | 03/07/2021 | Jack Hellner

[SeekAndFind]

Here's a truly ignorant tweet from the Washington Post:

https://t.co/MrzjVkZBEd — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 6, 2021

 

It says:

"Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty in defining move of presidency"

Now, at least RedState has noticed there's a problem. They ran this:

WaPo Puts Out Full-On Biden Propaganda Tweet That Just Might Blow Your Mind

 

It reminds me of people thinking President Obama in his day had a stash of funds to shower them with.

 

It's as if all money is their personal money, instead of taxpayer money.

 

Trump's policies gave the U.S. a record low poverty rate in 2019, record low unemployment rates and rising incomes. This is just a Band-Aid, and unlike Trump's achievements, it will end as soon as the money does.

 

Trump wanted to give people of all races and all education levels the opportunity to enjoy capitalism and the opportunity to move up the economic ladder.

 

And most journalists sought to destroy Trump every day.

 

Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and other Democrats continue the tradition of using taxpayer money to encourage people to stay poor and dependent on government.

 

Biden is destroying jobs and the private sector as fast as he can while increasing the power of the greedy politicians and bureaucrats.

 

And most journalists cheer.

 

[mo]

c’mon man..alleviates the bank account problems of donors and oligarchs...doncha know?!!

[SpaceBar]

Government in all its incarnations causes poverty... always. No exceptions. The idea is to have as little as possible so you can certain things done like maintain a military or print money, but once it reaches a certain size, like a pet boa constrictor, it will eventually get you.

[Parley Baer]

In Biden’s mind money does grow on trees.

[Pez149]

After watching Biden speak about the covid bill that just passed.
Something caught my ears.
Biden said that that this is going to raise the GDP by 1 Trillion Dollars.
In other words, We just wasted 1.9 Trillion Dollars in order to raise the GDP 1 Trillion Dollars.
Does anyone in the Biden Administration know Math?

[Bob434]

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[Uncle Miltie]

“Allieviate” = “Perpetuate”.

There. Fixed it.

[boycott]

Big government spending ‘alleviates poverty’ by creating more of it. It’s not big government’s money they’re spending. It’s the money of hard working tax payers that are carrying that load. They’re pushing hard working people down to the poverty level.

[ealgeone]

At 20+ trillion in debt there should be zero poverty then.

[BenLurkin]

Exactly.

Government subsidizes poverty.

[fhayek]

If you look at the extended unemployment benefits, your point is clear. To people on the lower end of the spectrum, it is far more lucrative to be unemployed than to get a job. I hire for my company, and it is difficult to compete with getting paid to do nothing. The very people who could benefit from becoming employed, acquiring basic job skills (like showing up!), and perhaps advancing through employment - are getting accustomed to staying home and playing Call of Duty all night.

[cranked]

WAPO fake news on a roll the last fews days especially when they asserted that #notmypresident was a traditionalist......

[PGR88]

Government CAUSES poverty.

[monkeyshine]

I suppose it alleviates “poverty” in a government-statistical sense. The Poverty Income line is around $12,800 last I read, per person or $22,000 for a family of 3. Give them more money and they are no longer “poor” by government standards. Nevermind the unintended consequences e.g. inflation that makes the money worth less, without adjusting the poverty line accordingly.

[Amendment10]

Regarding “government” dealing with poverty, please consider the following.

Politically correct interpretations of the General Welfare Clause (1.8.1) aside, Justice Joseph Story had used “poor laws” as an example of a power that the states have never given to Congress.

• "The power to regulate manufactures, not having been confided to congress, they have no more right to act upon it, than they have to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws, of the states [emphases added]. Congress is empowered to lay taxes for revenue, it is true; but there is no power to encourage, protect, or meddle with manufactures." —Joseph Story, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, Commentaries on the Constitution 2

• ”[…] the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)

• ”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

The problem is that since the unconstitutionally big federal government keeps stealing state revenues by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, the states must do the following in order to get back revenues that should never have left the states in the first place.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

In fact, Justice Brandeis had used his “laboratories of democracy” metaphor to emphasize the 10th Amendment-protected power of the states and the people to experiment with different ways to improve the lives of their respective citizens.

"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” —Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.

H O W E V E R…

As a consequence of inexcusably widespread ignorance of the federal government's express, constitutionally limited powers, the states must now beg elite Democratic and RINO lawmakers to return their revenues, the states required to comply with unconstitutional federal demands in to order to get their money back, so that the states can better deal with the needy for example.

On the other hand, patriots might consider getting their friends up to speed with the federal government's constitutionally limited powers with the following argument based on the 2nd Amendment (2A) from a related thread.

Probably the main reason that elite Democrats and RINOs have been getting away with foul play regarding their unconstitutionally big federal government for the last 70+ years is the following.

Probably few patriots have a grip on the significance of the requirement for constitutionally enumerated powers for the feds to justify anything that they do. From above…

”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Pro-2A patriots, in addition to continuing to support 2A, also need to argue that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to make peacetime restrictive gun laws, and many other laws and actions that they make and do.

Ironically, the 14th Amendment gives Congress the specific power only to STRENGTHEN constitutionally enumerated rights, including 2A.

Pro-2A patriots who accept this challenge, please report blank look responses to no federal power to make peacetime restrictive gun laws back to FR.

[SuperLuminal]

Without widespread poverty the communists in power have no base...

[SkyDancer]

Just like them saying sending out 320 million dollars to Americans will make all of us millionaires.

[ronnie raygun]

So handing out money cuts down on poverty....until the money is gone, now what? more money?

[JimRed]

Poverty is almost always a result of bad choices and sometimes of bad luck. Like having the bad luck to be born to those who make bad choices.

[SunkenCiv]

....Credit Suisse analyst Zoltan Pozsar recently summed up the situation in a report, saying: "The banking system is running out of balance sheet. Soon there will be too much cash." [Analysis: Fixed-income markets wary of Fed decision on bank capital relief]