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Originally Posted by A//// Guy
I agree on limiting what people can buy with welfare and food stamps to an extent. One would also argue, it is imposing more govt regulation on what someone can and cant do with assistance.
Assistance is there for a reason, to be a crutch short term until you can get back on your feet, from either job loss, or something similar. The real long term problem is that people abuse it for years and continue to do so because of other loopholes.
Cigarettes, alchohol and lottery tix are taxed pretty heavily, so getting the poor hooked on those things, brings quite a bit of money back into the system. Its a crazy circle.
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It is suppose to be short term, but in states such as MN where the assistance pretty much pays to not work. In some states people get more on assistance and welfare then most people make working. So whats the point of working when you can do nothing and receive so much???
I just read the other day that some people in Hawaii get close to 60k a year to do nothing. Granted things are more expensive but wow, just think about that. I should say it was more like 44k which would be give or take 60k pre taxed.