07-13-2022, 01:28 AM
(07-12-2022, 09:48 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: A lot of Democrats and Republicans complain about people working 40 hours a week and still being given food stamps or some other form of social security.
Imo, that's...exactly how the system is supposed to work: aid for people who are willing to work for an honest day's wage and still struggle to make it. Of course, you also have the (physically or mentally) disabled and the elderly, but if a high percentage of people on welfare programs worked 30+ hours a week, that would be a sign of progress, not a bad sign. When we look both at the cost-per-recipient and behavioral incentives encouraged, it's vastly preferable to the alternative of learned helplessness, and high rates of single parent homes, crime and mental illness.
I agree with Nick Hanauer instead. That's not how the system is supposed to work. It's supposed to be for people who don't have jobs. If someone is working, they are entitled to a living wage and a decent middle class life, without the need for government assistance. Making the taxpayers foot the bill for companies that refuse to pay their workers properly is socialism for the rich and the bosses.