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[email protected], Peter Aitken at
[email protected] wrote on 2/22/04 3:08 PM:
> "ravinwulf" <
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>> On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 13:20:20 -0600, John Gaughan <
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>>> We could do a lot to cut spending while not giving anything up, but it will never happen because
>>> the people want "free" **** from the government.
>>
>> And worse, the vast majority of the people wanting "free" **** aren't the same ones paying
>> taxes.
>>
>> Tracy R.
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>
> That's not true. You qualify for SS only if you have paid into the system. In any case, even if
> what you say is true in part, so what? That's the way it is supposed to work. To their great
> credit, most Americans have decided that it is OK for the better off to help the less well off. If
> you are concerned about your tax bill perhaps you ought to work to see that corporations and
> billionaires pay a reasonable share and stop worrying about the pittance that poor people get.
>
I'm all in favor of helping out those less fortunate who cannot provide for themselves.
But what burns my ass is when people lie about their qualifications for assistance, for example, by
living in a two income household but only declaring their own income. I know someone who lives with
her boyfriend and their 1 yr old child. They are not married, and it's only HER name on the lease.
She gets Section 8 (which is a govt program that pays rent for low income people, usually with
children), WIC (nutritious, basic foods like milk, juice, fruit and cereal are paid for by the
government for women with infants and children), energy assistance from the electric utility, etc.
She works, but is way underpaid, through no fault of her own, her boss is a miser.
They have no intention, btw, of getting married. Why should they? If they do, they lose all their
"benefits". Which people like you and I are paying for.