Child tax credit cuts childhood poverty in half
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Well the answer is actually yes to both. There are less poor and less crime since LBJ. We are in an interesting time right now when gun violence is growing but property crime is down or steady.
On whole though, our cities are much better today than in the past. You may recall when Reagan famously visited the south Bronx and told the people who lived there it looked like a nuclear bomb was dropped there. Not really a nice thing to say but it shows thebstate of cities then. Crime in the 1990s was through the roof. The 1970s, the years after LBJ, was very low crime which we have gotten very close to in the past decade.
Nice Cherry pick on the poverty chart
Go back to 1945 poverty under Eisenhower dropped the most ever
Once the Democrats war on poverty was installed poverty flattened for 50 years.
It only dipped twice, once under Clinton after welfare reform and under Trump who got minority unemployment to a record low
Interesting that violent crime started rising at the same time as the war on poverty started
This credit extends to households making +$150,000. And yes it does incentivize having children. It’s probably something you never considered but part of the reason GDP was so high after World War Two was the high birth rate. As our birth rate has declined over successive decades so has GDP. We need a healthy birth rate general national well being.
Again, this is not an anti poverty program. You guys are being thick headed. Depending on which state you live this credit extends to households that would be considered upper middle class. $150,000 of income includes about 75% of the country.
Nice Cherry pick on the poverty chart
Go back to 1945 poverty under Eisenhower dropped the most ever
Once the Democrats war on poverty was installed poverty flattened for 50 years.
It only dipped twice, once under Clinton after welfare reform and under Trump who got minority unemployment to a record low
I didn’t cherry pick anything. The poster specifically asked what happened after LBJ. After LBJ poverty declined. It’s a fact. Even in your chart you can see it.
Eisenhower took over a post war country pulling out of the Great Depression. Poverty declined because of a lot of macro reasons. Not that I’m against Eisenhower or anything.
Interesting that violent crime started rising at the same time as the war on poverty started
Your chart shows violent crime rising prior to the war on poverty. But again, this credit is not a poverty program.
What a stupid response.
Equating someone who has worked their entire life and PAID into SS finally benefitting from the program, to someone who likely has contributed very minimally to society collecting $$ for breathing and breeding is beyond the pale.
He said monthly distribution of a government program would lead to more overdoses. Euclid’s first law would apply.
And let’s be honest here, you’re pretty dumb.