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> You are delusional or you have serious maths problems: if you can afford to give 100 to 10 people, you automatically afford to give 100 to 100,000 people? Wha
by thanksgiving 9y ago
> You are delusional or you have serious maths problems: if you can afford to give 100 to 10 people, you automatically afford to give 100 to 100,000 people? What logic is that?
Ah, yes this is what the economists say. They are the delusional ones. Means testing breeds resentment and separates people. No, Scandinavians you don't get a say in this until you have as much "diversity" as we do in the United States.
Here is what I say to the economists (no offense to the news outlet): seriously, screw you. They have to disown Alan Greenspan before I will listen to a word of "logic" from the "economists".
We have two options: eliminate entitlements or raise taxes (or a combination of both). I am OK with either option. What I am not OK with is divisive politics, fear-mongering, hypocrisy.
Raise income taxes as much as you need to and/or lower entitlements as much as we can but let us agree to get rid of means testing. Let us aspire to what Barack Obama said in his speech,
> There is not a liberal America and a conservative America—there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America—there's the United States of America.
Thank you.
(PS I didn't flag you)
- humanrebar 9y agoA more middle ground solution would be to keep means testing but turn hard cut-offs into smoother ramp-downs. Making a few grand more shouldn't lose you benefits worth much more.
- maxerickson 9y agoThey are objecting to wealth transfer, I doubt making it more effective matters to them.
- thanksgiving 9y ago> They are objecting to wealth transfer, I doubt making it more effective matters to them. There are some "well-meaning" people who support shutting down all government entitlement programs. They will never admit to it but they see it as competition to religious "charity" and that more people would "find" {{ $deity }} if they had nowhere else to turn. There is no I can to say to these "well-meaning" people.