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There is a number of conservative ideologies that have nothing to do with reality, as proven in practice: that tax cuts lead to growth that covers for increase in debt, that trickle down works but it really does not. Or that protecting environment hurts economy (while it actually creates more net jobs), or that coal is coming back lmao.
Another one is that giving people welfare checks makes them lazier.
Again, easy and emotional enough for right wing to grasp it, until they are faced with facts:
"Wisely designed anti-poverty programs, like the Earned Income Tax Credit, actually increase labor participation."
"A 2015 meta-study of cash programs in poor countries found “no systematic evidence that cash transfer programs discourage work” in seven different countries: Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, the Philippines, Indonesia, or Morocco. Other studies of cash-grant experiments in Uganda and Nigeria have found that such programs can increase working hours and earnings, particularly when the beneficiaries are required to attend classes that teach specific trades or general business skills."
Problem is, Republicans don't believe in science and facts.
Those seven different countries in no way compare to the US.
The desperately poor in those countries might be thrilled to have the opportunity for work, to support families. I just don't see the same in SOME, not all, US recipients of
welfare checks....is learned behavior the culprit? Weren't welfare single moms with multiple children the daughters of same??
I know several people who collect welfare and turn down jobs because they would lose their cash supplement and any section 8 housing breaks they get. One is a nurse and she routinely turns down the extra hours so she doesn't lose any of her benefits. Yes they are lazy scammers.
Busting another right wing myth: "welfare checks make people lazy"
You have confused cause and effect.
Republicans do not believe 'welfare checks make people lazy'.
We DO believe that 'lazy people will find a way to qualify for welfare if welfare is made easy enough'.
somewhere out there Sheldon Cooper is rolling his eyes at the notion this thread is about science.
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