Not only do Liberal policies not alleviate poverty.....they increase it!
And Thomas Sowell explains it as no one else can!
1. "If increasing your income by $10,000 a year would cause you to lose $15,000 worth of government benefits, would you do it? That is more than the equivalent of a 100 percent tax rate on income. Even millionaires and billionaires don't pay that high a tax rate.
a. ...the eligibility rules create a very high cost to individuals who try to rise by getting a job and earning their own money.
b. ....someone who is receiving multiple government-provided benefits -- housing subsidies, food subsidies, etc. -- to lose more in benefits than they gain in income, if they decide to take a legitimate and visible job.
2. Income inequality has long been one of the liberals' favorite issues.... it is a much-needed distraction from the disasters of ObamaCare and the various IRS, Benghazi and other Obama administration scandals.
3. ....income inequality has actually increased during five years of Barack Obama's leftist policies.
4. When you make it unnecessary for many people to work, fewer people work. Unprecedented numbers of Americans are on the food stamp program. Unprecedented numbers are also living off government "disability" payments.
5. ...government subsidies,...allow many people to receive greater benefits than they could earn by working at low-skilled jobs. Is it surprising that the labor force participation rate is lower than it has been in decades?
6. ....when people don't have to earn incomes, they are less likely to earn incomes --
7. Most of the households in the bottom 20 percent of income earners have nobody working. There are more heads of household working full-time and year-round in the top 5 percent than in the bottom 20 percent.
8. ....liberals can throw around numbers on how many people are living in "poverty" -- defined in terms of income received, not in terms of goods and services provided by the government.
a. Most Americans living in "poverty" have air conditioning, a motor vehicle and other amenities, including more living space than the average person in Europe -- not the average poor person in Europe, the average person.
"Poverty" is in the eye of the statisticians...
9. ...liberals often act as if this is an injustice to those who don't work, rather than an injustice to those who do work, and whose taxes support those who don't.
10. Liberals don't talk -- or perhaps even think -- in terms of the actual consequences of their policies, when it is so much more pleasant to think in terms of wonderful goals and lofty rhetoric.."
The High Cost of Liberalism: Part III - Thomas Sowell - Page full
Yet, there are good-hearted simpletons who still buy the scam, an vote for the scammers.
And Thomas Sowell explains it as no one else can!
1. "If increasing your income by $10,000 a year would cause you to lose $15,000 worth of government benefits, would you do it? That is more than the equivalent of a 100 percent tax rate on income. Even millionaires and billionaires don't pay that high a tax rate.
a. ...the eligibility rules create a very high cost to individuals who try to rise by getting a job and earning their own money.
b. ....someone who is receiving multiple government-provided benefits -- housing subsidies, food subsidies, etc. -- to lose more in benefits than they gain in income, if they decide to take a legitimate and visible job.
2. Income inequality has long been one of the liberals' favorite issues.... it is a much-needed distraction from the disasters of ObamaCare and the various IRS, Benghazi and other Obama administration scandals.
3. ....income inequality has actually increased during five years of Barack Obama's leftist policies.
4. When you make it unnecessary for many people to work, fewer people work. Unprecedented numbers of Americans are on the food stamp program. Unprecedented numbers are also living off government "disability" payments.
5. ...government subsidies,...allow many people to receive greater benefits than they could earn by working at low-skilled jobs. Is it surprising that the labor force participation rate is lower than it has been in decades?
6. ....when people don't have to earn incomes, they are less likely to earn incomes --
7. Most of the households in the bottom 20 percent of income earners have nobody working. There are more heads of household working full-time and year-round in the top 5 percent than in the bottom 20 percent.
8. ....liberals can throw around numbers on how many people are living in "poverty" -- defined in terms of income received, not in terms of goods and services provided by the government.
a. Most Americans living in "poverty" have air conditioning, a motor vehicle and other amenities, including more living space than the average person in Europe -- not the average poor person in Europe, the average person.
"Poverty" is in the eye of the statisticians...
9. ...liberals often act as if this is an injustice to those who don't work, rather than an injustice to those who do work, and whose taxes support those who don't.
10. Liberals don't talk -- or perhaps even think -- in terms of the actual consequences of their policies, when it is so much more pleasant to think in terms of wonderful goals and lofty rhetoric.."
The High Cost of Liberalism: Part III - Thomas Sowell - Page full
Yet, there are good-hearted simpletons who still buy the scam, an vote for the scammers.
