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Plenty of people on the right do not support walker et al. The right isn’t any more of a monolith than the left. Absolutely they’d support tax incentives for

by onos 4y ago

Plenty of people on the right do not support walker et al. The right isn’t any more of a monolith than the left. Absolutely they’d support tax incentives for married couples. As for stronger social safety nets decreasing crime, sounds good. And yet, the claim I’ve read is that in the USA increases to this have not correlated with improved outcomes to eg household wealth among black Americans (since the 60s). Of course we have a complex system here so hard to make any conclusions.

Arkhaine_kupo 4y ago
> Plenty of people on the right do not support walker et a The same argument could be made about Trump and he got record number of votes. A man who has never stepped inside a church and slept with an adult actress while his foreign third wife was giving birth to his 4th kid. With 26 lawsuits about inappropiate sexual behaviour. And a history as a debacherous family money bachelor. if the people on the right cared about social morality why reward that history with the highest office in the land? Its hard to imagine somoene more inappropiate and yet it brought unprecedented support. > Absolutely they’d support tax incentives for married couples. those already exist and single mother and sex out of marriage have increased since the 60s, so something seems to not add up. > And yet, the claim I’ve read is that in the USA increases to this have not correlated with improved outcomes to eg household wealth among black Americans (since the 60s). https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ This is a great source to compare median wealth in America. If even wages for upper middle class have fallen in relative terms in the past 50 years, what effect are gonna marginal increases on substandard welfare programs gonna do? If your rent goes up 10% annually, who cares if your food stamps go up 1-3%?
- onos 4y ago
  Thanks for the link. Yeah the world is complicated. I assume the plots above are driven by globalization. Fwiw I’m pro reshoring and isolationist. Below is a link to single motherhood rates by year. The lift off precedes the drug war so to my mind this discredits the idea that drug war is solely responsible for single parent growth, though I’m sure it has contributed. Thankfully it looks like we may have hit a peak. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_structure https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_stru...

by onos 4y ago

Arkhaine_kupo 4y ago

> Plenty of people on the right do not support walker et a The same argument could be made about Trump and he got record number of votes. A man who has never stepped inside a church and slept with an adult actress while his foreign third wife was giving birth to his 4th kid. With 26 lawsuits about inappropiate sexual behaviour. And a history as a debacherous family money bachelor. if the people on the right cared about social morality why reward that history with the highest office in the land? Its hard to imagine somoene more inappropiate and yet it brought unprecedented support. > Absolutely they’d support tax incentives for married couples. those already exist and single mother and sex out of marriage have increased since the 60s, so something seems to not add up. > And yet, the claim I’ve read is that in the USA increases to this have not correlated with improved outcomes to eg household wealth among black Americans (since the 60s). https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ This is a great source to compare median wealth in America. If even wages for upper middle class have fallen in relative terms in the past 50 years, what effect are gonna marginal increases on substandard welfare programs gonna do? If your rent goes up 10% annually, who cares if your food stamps go up 1-3%?

onos 4y ago
Thanks for the link. Yeah the world is complicated. I assume the plots above are driven by globalization. Fwiw I’m pro reshoring and isolationist. Below is a link to single motherhood rates by year. The lift off precedes the drug war so to my mind this discredits the idea that drug war is solely responsible for single parent growth, though I’m sure it has contributed. Thankfully it looks like we may have hit a peak. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_structure https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_stru...