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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (188714)5/17/2004 7:59:27 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1577020
 
What's apartment rent these days, $500 per month? That leaves ~$54 a week to feed three people. Oh, I forgot, what about transportation, insurance, school books, prescription drugs, doctors appointments, phone bill, other utilities. I'm sure I missed a dozen other bills that I don't even think about, but are a back breaker for some people. It's easy to sit in your comfortable position and think it's easy for everybody with the "perverse incentives" that are the "highest in the nation".

Your attacking a straw man. I never said it was easy. I said the combining that welfare payment with other benefits can pay more then a bottom level job. And I said that is a perverse incentive. It is an incentive not to work.

Not every bill is for redistribution of wealth but even if every bill and law was for that purpose it wouldn't change the fact that it is in a way criminal.

Get over it, government is social and economic engineering.

Current governments are heavily in to such things, that doesn't mean they have to be or even that they should be.

And Bush has made the most dramatic changes. For the rich at the expense of the poor and middle class.

Bush hasn't made dramatic changes that cause the government to give money to the rich. Tax cuts reduce the governments role in social engineering, they are not social engineering for the rich.

Tim
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