Dragonlady
Designing Woman
- Dec 1, 2012
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The smart move is to cut out redundant programs and programs that haven't worked for decades and programs that work against the interests of the people but democrats can't seem to figure out that concept.
I would increase the minimum wage and put an end to the expensive, wasteful and totally redundant "earned income credits program". EIC's transfer tax dollars from middle class voters to minimum wage workers, in the most expensive way possible:
by having the federal government collect taxes from the middle class, and pay it out to the working class. It would be much cheaper to raise the minimum wage and have the employers way out the funds, eliminating the costs of calculating EIC's, collecting the money from the middle class, and paying it out to the working poor.
Ditto food stamps. There. We've eliminated most of the costs of these two programs, and reduced the size of government in doing so, But the thing is, that Democrats have been trying to do this for decades, but have been blocked from doing so by successive Republican Houses. Republicans want any program that prevents their corporate buddies have having to pay for the services they use to make a profit.
Middle class voters should not be subsidizing the wages of the most profitable corporations in America, especially considering that the 13% tax cut that these mega corporations received in no way resulted in any meaningful wage increases for their employees, and Trump actually cut the overtime increases they employees were about to get.