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If it were, why would they offer welfare programs at all? Surely an "indolence tax" assessed on anyone with income below a certain threshold would be more cruel
by thfuran 3y ago
If it were, why would they offer welfare programs at all? Surely an "indolence tax" assessed on anyone with income below a certain threshold would be more cruel.
- immibis 3y agoWhat do you think poor people would do if there were no welfare programs?
- _carbyau_ 3y agoThis is what I find perplexing. Welfare programs are not for the poor. They are so the poor doesn't "eat the rich". (For those playing at home this is a slogan tossed around with connotations of society wide rebellion - which would not be a comfortable outcome for rich people.)
- AgentOrange1234 3y agoIt's frankly amazing that we still have welfare, social security, etc., at all. The pro-cruelty folks have been diligently working to discredit them since FDR enacted them during the great depression.
- ryandrake 3y agoDon’t give them any ideas. Roughly half of US politicians would probably support that. Without constitutional safeguards, a shocking number of them would support turning their opponents into Soylent Green.