JOBLESS, HOMELESS? SHOWERING IN GAS STATIONS? EATING OUT OF TRASH CANS?
Don't be a masochist. GET WELFARE! JUMP ON IN. THE WATER'S FINE!
OHHhh! I'm not sure!
Is this morally right?
Will someone find out?
Will they judge me?
Do I have to sit in that DPSS office for hours?
What will they ask me? AM I POOR? AM I CHEATING?
YEAH. So.......? BFD! POVERTY IS INCONVENIENT!
Welfare is MORAL as it allows you to MOVE UP IN LIFE and take OTHERS WITH YOU. It gives you a "START". TODAY, WELFARE PAYS BETTER THAN MINIMUM WAGE WORK! FORBES MAGAZINE says so in this article. Though I think there's some G.O.P sneer in that view. Then, you have time and ability to launch an entrepreneurial biz and GET A COTTAGE INDUSTRY up and running to MAKE Rockefeller CASH! To EMPLOY MANY!
Author Charles Murray launched the welfare reform movement in 1984 with his landmark book, Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980.
Since 2009, the Fair Labor Standards Act has dictated that the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. (In California, Min Wage is 11$ today in 2018. States differ and can go over but not under Fed min wage of $7.25.).
Some people (terminated, jobless workers, seniors and young college grads who can't get a job and owe on student loans,) think that’s waaay too low. Others (G.O.P rich folks who already GOT THEIRS) ......think $7.25 is too high. According to FORBES the rich guy's magazine, in at least 35 states, it’s a better deal not to work—and instead, to take advantage of federal welfare programs—than it would be to take a minimum-wage job. That’s the takeaway from a new study published by Michael Tanner and Charles Hughes of the Cato Institute. (Rich man's think tank which tries to create public policy that favors the wealthy who do not want to be taxed for welfare. They want all public moola to go for OIL-PIRACY, GENOCIDAL WARS.)
“The current welfare system provides such a high level of benefits that it acts as a disincentive for work,” (What they're saying is, poor ethnics will just stay home, eat and fool around ( and replicate like roaches.) 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.”
Losing ground in the war on poverty
The welfare system, at its best, is a system that gives people a way to live when they can’t find work for themselves, when they’re down on their luck. At its worst, the welfare system rewards people for not working, and incentivizes people to develop habits that make it harder for them to find work in the future, miring them in permanent poverty.
In 1984, a predecessor of mine at the Manhattan Institute, Charles Murray, published the definitive book on this subject, Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980. Murray found that despite the fact that we were spending trillions of dollars on anti-poverty programs, poverty was not improving; indeed, on many measures, it was getting worse. DITTO MURRAY. TRILLIONS SPENT ON WAR AND NO WAY THE COMMIES ARE HAVING A HARD TIME --( OR THE ARABS, MUSLIMS or TERRORISTS! In fact, they're multiplying like cockroaches. Should we maybe outlaw YOUR torture, drone attack, kidnap, bomb and PLUNDER third worlders- GAMBIT?
Things had gotten so bad that a Democratic presidential candidate, Bill Clinton, campaigned in 1992 on a platform to “end welfare as we know it, to make welfare a second chance, not a way of life.” In 1996, Clinton signed into law a landmark welfare-reform bill called the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which, among other things, required recipients of cash welfare payments to seek work, or lose their benefits. (Mothers with multiple toddlers had to clean freeways all day so cities could fire union workers. Real fair, Billy)
But though the 1996 reforms did shrink the cash welfare rolls, other programs have grown substantially in the last 17 years, so much so it appears that the significance of the 1996 reforms may have been overstated.
The welfare system has grown since 1996
In 1995, Cato published The Work vs. Welfare Trade-Off, which examined the value of welfare benefits in every state. They found that, in 40 states, welfare paid more than $8 an hour; in 17 states, welfare paid more than $10 an hour. Tanner, the principal author of that study, decided to reexamine the numbers in the context of 2013.
In Cato’s new 2013 study, welfare paid more than $10 an hour in 33 states; 17 paid less than $8 an hour. Comparing the two data sets and accounting for inflation, 18 states saw a decline in the total value of welfare benefits; 32 states and the District of Columbia saw increases.
Tanner and Hughes award the national welfare championship to Hawaii, which offers $60,590 in annual welfare benefits, once you account for the fact that welfare benefits are tax-free to the recipient, compared to work-related wages. That’s the equivalent of $29.13 an hour. Rounding out the top five were D.C. ($50,820 per year and $24.43 an hour), Massachusetts ($50,540 and $24.30), Connecticut ($44,370 and $21.33), and New York ($43,700 and $21.01).
States with the lowest welfare benefits were Idaho ($11,150 and $5.36), Mississippi ($11,830 and $5.69), Tennessee ($12.120 and $5.83), Arkansas ($12,230 and $5.88), and Texas ($12,550 and $6.03).
Vermont increased welfare payments by the largest amount
The biggest jump in welfare payments between 1995 and 2013 was enjoyed by Vermont, where annual pre-tax-equivalent benefits jumped from $31,580 to $42,350 in 2013 dollars: an increase of $10,770. Other big gainers were D.C. ($6,850), Hawaii ($5,589), New Hampshire ($5,299), and Oregon ($5,288).
The biggest decrease was in Alaska, where benefits dropped from $48,655 to $26,400, a difference of $22,255. The other major belt-tighteners were Virginia (-$20,035), Maine (-$18,718), Colorado (-$16,830), and Idaho (-$16,048).
Tanner and Hughes count 126 distinct federal means-tested anti-poverty programs in force today. For the purposes of their study, they looked specifically at: (1) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the post-1996 cash welfare program; (2) the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps; (3) Medicaid; (4) housing assistance; (5) utilities assistance; (6) the Women, Infants, and Children program (WIC), and (7) the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP).
Not all of these benefits apply to every welfare beneficiary, and some are time-limited, like TANF. But it remains true that an alarming number of welfare beneficiaries do not have an economic incentive to find entry-level work.
Also striking about the Tanner and Hughes study is the degree to which this problem would be much worse without the Earned Income Tax Credit, which offers subsidies to working low-income individuals. In effect, the EITC serves as a negative income tax for those with little-to-no income tax liability. It ameliorates the disincentive that welfare recipients have to seek work.
The Swedish solution: Tax those welfare benefits.
A better way to address this problem would be to treat welfare benefits like taxable income. Even low-income workers with no income tax liability have to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes. But welfare benefits are entirely tax-free.
As Reihan Salam has noted, Sweden has a generous welfare state. But Sweden treats welfare benefits as taxable income. This gives even welfare beneficiaries an incentive to support efficient government, providing a welcome blur between “makers” and “takers.” In Sweden, according to Tino Sanandaji, “an astonishing 85 percent of working-age native Swedes work and pay taxes, far above the European average of 70 percent.”
You could even increase the scale of welfare benefits, in order to ensure that the taxable net income to welfare beneficiaries remained similar. Such a change would allow for more straightforward comparisons of income from work and income from welfare, and reduce the disincentive for work.
Obamacare is doing much to make it harder for Americans to find work, especially full-time work. At the same time, the aging of the Baby Boomers and the growth in welfare payments is making it easier for Americans to give up on looking for work. Absent reform, this won’t end well.
by Avik Roy , Forbes Mag Staff
OK FORBES MAG. You speak for the billionaires. NOW HERE Mr. Worker Man is YOUR VIEW, the honest TRUTH. The oligarchs strangled the economy with endless war, sent our factories to the third world, which is GOOD. I'm glad Guatemalans are assembling electric irons for American corps. Those Mayans need to eat, too. But when Washington LET IRONS-R-US move to Guatemala with their exit visa stamped by Natt'an'Gaff, -- (those trade treaties). ... the rich guy in charge forgot about us workers. The pols were working for the corporations who needed buck-a- day workers. So now, guess what? YOU are entitled to retool just like the oligarchs did. Take Welfare while you build a corporation of your own, to employ and feed many. TAKE THE DAMN WELFARE AND FOOD STAMPS BUDDY! If GOD made it, can it be bad?WELFARE is such a SMALL PIE SLICE of AMERICAN BUDGET it does't even appear on the BUDGET PIZZA.
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