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There are few policies that help the working poor. Especially if you don't have kids, you're on your own then. Now policies for the non working poor.....those are too numerous to list here.
Why not let the free market bring down the cost of living for everyone?
What an open-ended question that is. First of all, the actual list price for commodities and basic goods is irrelevant. Our federal monetary policy is what is forcing Americans below the poverty line. There is a reason why what used to be considered a living wage is laughable at best now.
Additionally, this free market you speak of, is this the same free market that has been decreasing the value of their products and services all while increasing end-user costs?
the system is broke. Let's cut the free-market bull**** for a minute and realize that the so-called "free-market" and big government have been working in collusion for a very long time to manipulate cost-of-living and our country's socio-economic demographics.
Because $15 TRILLION DOLLARS after the "war on poverty", we have more poverty than ever before and $16 TRILLION DOLLARS in debt.
Look, how much do you want? I'll PM you my contact information and you can ask me personally for whatever it is you feel that I, as a taxpayer, owe you.
The "war on poverty" makes many people wealthy - slumlords, merchants, etc. You don't owe me anything other than a free market in housing, free from excessive taxation and regulation.
We are wrongly subsidizing intergenerational poverty; my plan promotes work and home ownership, while discouraging people from popping out kids they cannot afford.
If burger flippers could buy small homes (allowing them to stabilize housing costs, thereby facilitating saving and investing for the future) flipping burgers would be preferable to living on the dole and popping out kids.
The "war on poverty" makes many people wealthy - slumlords, merchants, etc. You don't owe me anything other than a free market in housing, free from excessive taxation and regulation.
We are wrongly subsidizing intergenerational poverty; my plan promotes work and home ownership, while discouraging people from popping out kids they cannot afford.
If burger flippers could buy small homes (allowing them to stabilize housing costs, thereby facilitating saving and investing for the future) flipping burgers would be preferable to living on the dole and popping out kids.
EITC is nothing more than theft from those of us who don't qualify for it. Don't make enough money? Here, take someone else's.
Government already takes money from the working poor and redistributes it upward. Government policies are designed to prevent the working poor from buying homes, thereby keeping them in rent slavery, where they pay a steep premium for the inability to buy a home. Government also imposes steep higher property taxes on the rented homes of the working poor.
So you are probably currently taking money from the working poor.
But why do so many also oppose policies designed to assist the working poor, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit?
Why do so many support policies which effectively impose high marginal tax rates on the working poor?
In the unlikely event that you don't know the real answer, I'll tell you why.
All of these trough-slopper programs are design, built, modified, maintained and funded with one real motive - to keep the trough-sloppers addicted on, and thereby dependent on, the program and its "Mastas".
Try to "look behind the mask", and you will so understand so much more than you do now.
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