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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (538206)	12/22/2009 6:59:29 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576956

"Wrong. The 120%, figure went up to over $40K, and up to $50K it was over 100%. " But, that is a problem. Someone making $40k is not getting significant benefits. Maybe school lunches, but even that is dubious. 100% of nothing is still nothing. "Nonsense. The links covered the rational for the numbers." Well, the links are flawed. As I have pointed out. The biggest chunk, Medicaid, is based on much more than just income, like you assume. For the numbers to work, a family would have to qualify for most, if not all of the programs listed. The reality is that few, if any families in the $20k and over brackets would qualify for any of the programs at all outside of maybe SNAP. And then they wouldn't be getting the max. Certainly not to the tune of a substantial fraction of any income increase. It is a classic case of GIGO.