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NYT's Kristof: 5 wasteful public welfare programs that should be stopped
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2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)I was going to try to put this into something small and printable in a sticker format, but this is already done for me. Wonderful. I will post them in my redneck town.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)The fact that you have to pay more for money you worked for than money that worked for itself makes no sense to me.
tclambert
(11,085 posts)to rich people.
Well, OK, actually it would be fair. But rich people don't like that, either. They only like it if it's unfair in their favor. And we get the tax laws they buy with their lobbyist money.
tclambert
(11,085 posts)Apparently, EARNING your money is for chumps.
pitchforx
(49 posts)and the workin man is poor, i ain't got no home in this world anymore"
........................................Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I haven't read the rules in several years, but I think they have most issues covered. It got some publicity when Mitt was campaigning, but not enough.
niyad
(113,259 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)keep in mind.
It is this type of inequity that the GOP fully supports.
Those that benefit form this type of inequity are the ones that supply GOP funding.
It is their bought and paid for front men that mislead people into working against their own best interest.
EOD.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)Someone get a bill going to put and end to this kind of "wasteful" welfare, then force every member of congress to vote so there will be a record of those who continually vote to cut programs for the poor, but continue to push the "welfare" for the rich!
If you want to cut waste it's always best to start at the top and work down, not the other way around.
Initech
(100,063 posts)The mom on welfare with three kids working four jobs just to pay rent? She's not the problem. Exxon Mobil which gets billions in free subsidies and makes money hand over fist? Yeah they're the real problem and why our economy continues to go to shit!
malthaussen
(17,187 posts)Always something new to learn.
-- Mal
eallen
(2,953 posts)I knew a cabbie who lived in a small cabin runabout that wasn't worth more than a thousand dollars. He no doubt paid cash, since he wasn't credit worthy. And a preacher who lived on an old 26 foot sailboat, worth maybe $10K at most. A hippie couple who lived on a boat they had finished themselves. Theirs was worth a more, but it was sweat equity.
Boats are like caravans. Both categories include everything from "something rescued from the junkyard" to million dollar palaces. In both cases, the lower end are much more common than the upper end.
My own view is that the mortgage deduction should be eliminated entirely. It's more a boon to builders and bankers than to people generally. It encourages building bigger homes than otherwise, buying homes when it might be wiser to rent, and treating second homes as an "investment."
malthaussen
(17,187 posts)I agree about the mortgage deduction. All in the cause of getting people to spend more than they can afford.
-- Mal
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,110 posts)Rohrabacher, unfortunately.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)You libruls just want to tax my future wealthinessocity.
Class Warfare!
polynomial
(750 posts)With very often advertisements from Ed Shultz or Thom Hartmann says America owes sixteen trillion dollars that will never be paid back then goes on to suggest the market will crash, and its only a matter of time when it happens. So buy gold to protect yourself. Yikes
let them keep their gold because you cant eat it.
Sixteen trillion dollars got flim flamed to the one percent because I sure dont have any of it. So my imagination looked around to see what that kind of money can buy. Sheesh
So, ladies and gentlemen of America we could have completely changed or modernize the American infrastructure two times with change left over.
A new infrastructure likely with everyone connected via the post office with fiber optics in new communications era, all being easier to create small business.
A technology example for the future just the other day I signed up to a free seminar to navigate the Library of Congress. We should have all material digitized so all bills in Congress can be automatically emailed to the electorate to be able to give feedback to our representatives. And have poling for American opinions done open online not secret stuff like they do now.
That would mean plenty of jobs, not big government but a smart government that is way overdue. All that would create jobs with a living wage and a good future could have been the big picture. So now all we get is a minimum wage raise, and a screwed up trade agreement. War as a probability because most American dont know how to read the Constitution or bother to look at legislation to know 911 was fixed to profiteer.
AAO
(3,300 posts)pitchforx
(49 posts)Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)But it's really fascism that would make Mussolini jealous.
allan01
(1,950 posts)end of the WEALTHcare system as we know it ,
MADem
(135,425 posts)Cha
(297,154 posts)Poor Corporations who are sucking off the American Government.
thanks EarlG & Nicolas Kristof
joeglow3
(6,228 posts)I got my b-hole shredded on here a couple weeks ago for pointing out what Amazon costs local governments. The disgusting thing was that so many here defended it because they got to buy shit cheap.