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The concern isn't what poor people are doing with their money- the concern is what are the people receiving tax dollars doing with their money. > Fortunately,
by jonfw 6y ago
The concern isn't what poor people are doing with their money- the concern is what are the people receiving tax dollars doing with their money.
> Fortunately, we don’t need to know what the money is spent on to measure whether or not the program is working.
I could not disagree more- we absolutely do not have adequate measure of how these programs are working. You are trying to solve a problem upstream of a million factors- we aren't anywhere near measuring outcomes of single decisions.
- dole 6y agoThe United States loses $90B in tax revenue annually from corporations offshoring their profits in shelters and havens. Which would we be more profitable monitoring and enforcing: who we’re paying out to, or who’s supposed to be paying us?