Re:Stop Blaming America’s Poor for Their Poverty
by jsmith99 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:07AM
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> a free house, free healthcare, and all the things you're not mentioning - free education, free sustenance, free childcare, free longterm paid pa/maternal leave, guaranteed high paying jobs, etc
The great majority of Americans nevertheless do have houses, healthcare, education, sustenance, childcare and jobs. This suggests that the economy can provide these things and that also providing them to the small proportion currently without them is probably feasible.
Making them 'free' and involving taxes just rearranges the payments involved. It doesn't require producing much more than America already does.
The challenge is to do this without damaging incentives and the economy or creating moral hazard (free riders). That's the difficulty.
The great majority of Americans nevertheless do have houses, healthcare, education, sustenance, childcare and jobs. This suggests that the economy can provide these things and that also providing them to the small proportion currently without them is probably feasible.
Making them 'free' and involving taxes just rearranges the payments involved. It doesn't require producing much more than America already does.
The challenge is to do this without damaging incentives and the economy or creating moral hazard (free riders). That's the difficulty.