The dismal reality in America that we first exposed over 18 months ago is that 'work is punished'. Simply put, for increasingly more Americans it is now more lucrative - in the form of actual disposable income - to sit, do nothing, and collect various welfare entitlements, than to work. As the following brief clip exposes, supposedly well-intentioned welfare programs drastically decrease benefits at certain income thresholds - which in effect can make a breadwinner and his/her family worse off when they start earning more. Sound absurd? That's because it is.
As we noted in detail previously,
This is graphically, and very painfully confirmed, in the below chart from Gary Alexander, Secretary of Public Welfare, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (a state best known for its broke capital Harrisburg). As quantitied, and explained by Alexander, "the single mom is better off earnings gross income of $29,000 with $57,327 in net income & benefits than to earn gross income of $69,000 with net income and benefits of $57,045."
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So a sliding scale would appear to make sense here instead of a tiered system.
First though, check the recipients for iPhones, pets, 22"rims, alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. All of these cost money and are more luxusious than a welfare recipient should be allowed. These should be disqualifiers - in addition to the amounts handed out - it should be just enough to survive - after the means testing...if you choose an iPhone instead of a year's worth of corn-flakes - your child should starve to death!
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