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Yeah, you get child and elder care if you make enough money to owe enough taxes to cover those bills. Poor? Working minimum wage? Sorry, I guess your kid gets t
by novia 10y ago
Yeah, you get child and elder care if you make enough money to owe enough taxes to cover those bills. Poor? Working minimum wage? Sorry, I guess your kid gets to stay at home with gramma to kill two birds with one stone.
- davidw 10y agoI'm kind of realizing that my wife and I are in a decent financial position and have good jobs and that things like * Killing Obamacare and leaving millions without health insurance (but lowering premiums!) * Lowering taxes on high earners * Child care credits for high earners and not for the poor Would all benefit us. The angry cynical part of my brain kind of urges me towards a "you know what, all those white-no-education-economic-malaise people who voted for him are going to get just what they deserve.". But there's also all the fascist stuff about deportations and walls and I don't want to live in a me me me society anyway, so I'll do what I can to fight this garbage. Among other things, I just signed up for the ACLU: https://action.aclu.org/secure/renew-your-aclu-membership https://action.aclu.org/secure/renew-your-aclu-membership
- aminok 10y agoCounteracting a me me me society with authoritarian mandates forcing people to give to the poor cannot be morally justified in my opinion. The just use of the law is to punish those who violate the rights of others, not those who don't meet our personal moral standards on acting altruistically. The latter is treading on theocratic ideology.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoThere's already welfare in existence to help poor among elderly or children. This at least appears to be an increase over that.