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re: Older Baton Rouge residents. What lead to the decline of NBR?
Posted on 6/24/17 at 11:28 pm to Bullfrog
Posted on 6/24/17 at 11:28 pm to Bullfrog
It's because they don't own the home they live in. Renters typically aren't responsible for upkeep. That's the landlord's job. Also, if the renter spent too much time and effort upgrading property they didn't own, the property might increase in value, causing the rent to go up. The federal government doesn't care if section 8 properties are kept up, section 8 tenets have few other options and don't care, and thus property owners don't care either.
The reason why people on section 8 and public assistance commit more property and violent crime is because of the strict income and asset limits for recieving benefits. If they exceed that, they lose their benefits and have what they were given confiscated. Entitlements give you enough to live, but not enough to be comfortable so they have to resort to illicit income (cash businesses, theft, selling drugs, etc) to have more spending money.
Section 8 and cradle to grave entitlements (medicaid, disibility, WIC, SNAP, etc) are the downfall of civilzation.
The reason why people on section 8 and public assistance commit more property and violent crime is because of the strict income and asset limits for recieving benefits. If they exceed that, they lose their benefits and have what they were given confiscated. Entitlements give you enough to live, but not enough to be comfortable so they have to resort to illicit income (cash businesses, theft, selling drugs, etc) to have more spending money.
Section 8 and cradle to grave entitlements (medicaid, disibility, WIC, SNAP, etc) are the downfall of civilzation.
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Posted on 6/24/17 at 11:34 pm to kingbob
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Section 8 and cradle to grave entitlements (medicaid, disibility, WIC, SNAP, etc) are the downfall of civilzation.
Bingo.
Thomas Sowell - "Even when they have the potential to become productive members of society, the loss of welfare state benefits if they try to do so is an implicit “tax” on what they would earn that often exceeds the explicit tax on a millionaire. If increasing your income by $10,000 would cause you to lose $15,000 in government benefits, would you do it? In short, the political left’s welfare state makes poverty more comfortable, while penalizing attempts to rise out of poverty"
This post was edited on 6/24/17 at 11:35 pm
Posted on 6/25/17 at 3:05 pm to kingbob
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Entitlements give you enough to live, but not enough to be comfortable so they have to resort to illicit income (cash businesses, theft, selling drugs, etc) to have more spending money. Section 8 and cradle to grave entitlements (medicaid, disibility, WIC, SNAP, etc) are the downfall of civilzation.
As an experiment, we should end all entitlements for 5 years and let that segment of the gene pool die off. Once the general tax paying public sees first hand the benefits, make it permanent. It's a win - win.
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 3:07 pm
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