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There should be no stigma for people in need taking help, but there should definitely be a stigma for wealthy people taking government support. Welfare is to he

There should be no stigma for people in need taking help, but there should definitely be a stigma for wealthy people taking government support. Welfare is to help people who can’t get by one their own. Not to pad the pockets of the wealthy. Nobody is criticizing grad students for taking food stamps, they are criticizing Harvard for not paying a living wage and instead taking yet more federal welfare to bolster their massive pile of tax free cash.

yowzadave 3y ago
Should wealthy people feel a stigma for attending public school? The problem with food stamps is that they are designed to attach stigma to whoever uses them. The best way to sort out inequities in who receives a benefit is not through means-testing, but on the tax side.
salawat 3y ago
...Except at a certain scale, it becomes productive to incorporate the Welfare mechanism into your compensation scheme. Or have people forgotten how both Walmart and McDonalds encourage their employees to utilize food stamps and other forms of welfare? https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2020/11/18/taxpayers-subsidize-poverty-wages-walmart-mcdonalds-other-large-corporations-gao https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2020/11/18/taxpayers-s... Say it with me: "Any system I implement to help the little guy will be abused or otherwise utilized to subsidize the big guy unless I specifically address that possibility." It's positively disgusting behavior; but alas, here we are.