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Food-stamp recipients and folks on social security are completely different classes of citizen. Firstly, we expect the food-stamp recipient to eventually get o
by lwhalen 7y ago
Food-stamp recipients and folks on social security are completely different classes of citizen. Firstly, we expect the food-stamp recipient to eventually get off of them and start providing for themselves. The social security recipient has paid into the system their entire life, and they are now entitled - by virtue of having lived long enough and paid enough in - to start withdrawing the money they've been coerced into depositing.
Interestingly enough, most economic studies of social security show that putting the same money into a low-risk index fund would've netted more gains, plus that money would've been available to the person with far fewer 'strings attached' (vis a vis able to be withdrawn earlier if desired, descendants/spouses able to withdraw in case of untimely demise, etc). Coerced gov't meddling, again, has proven to be the more-painful economic road to go down, as opposed to letting individuals choose what to do with what they've earned.
- jacobwilliamroy 7y ago>food stamp receipients >folks on social security I notice that you call some people "folks" while others are simply "receipients". Do you think poor people are human?
- lwhalen 7y agoCertainly. But humans are supposed to be responsible for their own outcome, more often than not. America is the land of opportunity. Many people who are otherwise more than able to work, choose to Trustifarian it up and be a pimple on the backside of society when they COULD choose to be productive members. I am perfectly happy to pay taxes and lend a hand up. It's when I'm obligated to give a hand-out that I get cranky.
- jacobwilliamroy 7y agoDo you know any pimples? Can you even name one?
- lwhalen 7y agoThere's this guy, Jacob W Roy, who certainly chaps _my_ ass...
- jacobwilliamroy 7y agoSo you don't actually know of anyone who is abusing the system in the way that you claim? You're... just making stuff up?
- lexs 7y agoI thought this "argument" around welfare queens had its day in the 90s...not the 2020s