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Government services are suppose to help people. When States are staving for cash, how can this possibly make up the difference? Surely getting all these elderly

Government services are suppose to help people. When States are staving for cash, how can this possibly make up the difference? Surely getting all these elderly or working poor people for a couple thousand here or there (trivial for the government and the well off or middle class; disastrous for those on fixed incomes) cannot even hope to clear the cost of the State workers and contractors hired to do the collections work and handling the bullshit appeal process (even if it is just rubber stamping things). This is the problem: the State is turning to the enemy of the poor in the US, and if you crunched the numbers, they're probably not even earning that much off these people. It's fucked up.

grawprog 7y ago
>This is the problem: the State is turning to the enemy of the poor in the US, and if you crunched the numbers, they're probably not even earning that much off these people. It's fucked up. I honestly can't see how it can even be about money when you have government agencies stripping drivers licenses and vocational certificates from people for defaulting on student loan payments. At that point, the government's taking away their ability to work and earn an income in response to them not paying a debt. How is somebody, who likely couldn't pay it before, supposed to pay anything back when you take away their ability to actually earn a wage?
- cordite 7y ago
  Also cuts off their future taxes
- Ancalagon 7y ago
  Because as with all legal matters in the US, it is about punishment, not rehabilitation.
snagglegaggle 7y ago
The modern US government is impossible to hold accountable and it has been this way for some time. At no point in my life have I seen the government as something that will help me. I am honestly surprised there is not more violence due to police brutality, discrimination, asset forfeiture, and now this.

grawprog 7y ago

>This is the problem: the State is turning to the enemy of the poor in the US, and if you crunched the numbers, they're probably not even earning that much off these people. It's fucked up. I honestly can't see how it can even be about money when you have government agencies stripping drivers licenses and vocational certificates from people for defaulting on student loan payments. At that point, the government's taking away their ability to work and earn an income in response to them not paying a debt. How is somebody, who likely couldn't pay it before, supposed to pay anything back when you take away their ability to actually earn a wage?

cordite 7y ago
Also cuts off their future taxes
Ancalagon 7y ago
Because as with all legal matters in the US, it is about punishment, not rehabilitation.

snagglegaggle 7y ago

The modern US government is impossible to hold accountable and it has been this way for some time. At no point in my life have I seen the government as something that will help me. I am honestly surprised there is not more violence due to police brutality, discrimination, asset forfeiture, and now this.