What is YOUR plan to lessen the burden of the poor?

You seem really bothered by their burden. It must keep you up countless nights knowing that we, as a country, through taxation, have been fighting a war on poverty for over 100 years and poverty rates have not gone down at all. In fact, they have only risen.

Yet you sit here and berate those who make small mentions of ways to help the majority of people (be they right or wrong in their assumptions), when it is obvious that the way we are doing things today are not helping anyone at all.

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Posted by jclem11

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Member since Nov 2011

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Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:46 am to UtahCajun

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What is YOUR plan to lessen the burden of the poor?

For starters, certain segments of lower class society are just bad decision makers so no amount of assistance via transfer payments will help them achieve more. At best, we can hope to placate them by making them comfortable so they do not riot and disrupt the peace.

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You seem really bothered by their burden. It must keep you up countless nights knowing that we, as a country, through taxation, have been fighting a war on poverty for over 100 years and poverty rates have not gone down at all. In fact, they have only risen.

War on poverty, war on drugs, "war" on anything is cringe and gay and never helps anything. I won't argue that point as I agree.

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Yet you sit here and berate those who make small mentions of ways to help the majority of people (be they right or wrong in their assumptions),

Because I am factually correct that consumption-based taxes such as a VAT or a flat tax is by definition regressive. These proposals are typically bundled with eliminating all entitlements which is just further fricking over poor people.

That is my main point. And I just like to play devil's advocate to argue on the internet.