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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by novia on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @06:13PM (#12915804)
Yeah, you get child and elder care if you make enough money to owe enough taxes to cover those bills. Poor? Working minimum wage? Sorry, I guess your kid gets to stay at home with gramma to kill two birds with one stone.
Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by davidw on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:57PM (#12916646)
I'm kind of realizing that my wife and I are in a decent financial position and have good jobs and that things like

* Killing Obamacare and leaving millions without health insurance (but lowering premiums!)

* Lowering taxes on high earners

* Child care credits for high earners and not for the poor

Would all benefit us. The angry cynical part of my brain kind of urges me towards a "you know what, all those white-no-education-economic-malaise people who voted for him are going to get just what they deserve.".

But there's also all the fascist stuff about deportations and walls and I don't want to live in a me me me society anyway, so I'll do what I can to fight this garbage.

Among other things, I just signed up for the ACLU: https://action.aclu.org/secure/renew-your-aclu-membership

Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by aminok on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @08:48PM (#12916969)
Counteracting a me me me society with authoritarian mandates forcing people to give to the poor cannot be morally justified in my opinion.

The just use of the law is to punish those who violate the rights of others, not those who don't meet our personal moral standards on acting altruistically. The latter is treading on theocratic ideology.

Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by nickpsecurity on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @08:38PM (#12916911)
There's already welfare in existence to help poor among elderly or children. This at least appears to be an increase over that.