Wow do I feel bad, you sure told me
Child tax credit cuts childhood poverty in half
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Wow do I feel bad, you sure told me
Ken, you live in an aging population. Programs that help families with young kids out and with their education pay back to the country far more then they ever take. Just because they don't have an immediate pay out doesn't make them a bad investment. In fact, they are a proven great investment in most long term studies. You need productive young people or your economy collapses under the weight of all your retirees. Not just any young people; well educated people who didn't get scarred by living in poverty in their younger years without much hope.
I could get into all the ways the US has wasted money on things far less important and events like 2008 but I'd be writing for weeks on that topic.
I'm all for helping kids in need, of course.
My point is that if poor people know that the government will pay them thousands of dollars a year per child, they may have additional children they can't afford to raise. I think people should give careful thought to pregnancy and only, to the best of their ability, have children they can afford.
I feel bad for kids in poverty, parental responsibility is important. It's an old debate. I believe folks should only have kids they can afford to raise, otherwise you get endless poverty cycle.
I was truly saddened when I saw poor Detroit neighborhoods when I worked at Ford. The hopelessness you see in inner-city eyes is heartwrenching.
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For 30 years the government has been paying thousands of dollars a year per child. Do live under a rock or something?
The innovation here is the restructuring of the credit and the expansion to reach more families.
The poverty line is an arbitrary number based on the bottom end of wealth
There will always be a bottom 20%...Statistically Poverty will never go away...its become an industry complex between Govt and Non profits and churches
This is why poverty levels have been flat for 60 years
You need to look from the bottom up
Do the poor have a comfortable life with a standard way of living.
Not whether they can take European vacations
Teo things can happen at the same time. Expanding the credit and distributing it monthly reduces poverty while more efficiently delivering it.
The poverty line is an arbitrary number based on the bottom end of wealth
There will always be a bottom 20%...Statistically Poverty will never go away...its become an industry complex between Govt and Non profits and churches
This is why poverty levels have been flat for 60 years
You need to look from the bottom up
Do the poor have a comfortable life with a standard way of living.
Not whether they can take European vacations
Totally wrong. Poverty is not measured by the percentage of lowest income earners. Poverty is measured by the cost of living by county.
As a note, this is just as bad as when you try to compare red state and blue state unvaccinated total persons. All it shows is that you’ve never had a job that required an education or frankly any brains.