Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k

Re:Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k by UncleMeat on Friday May 20, 2022 @05:40PM (#31452861)

Even amongst the left, the narrative of the welfare queen is strong. Eliminating means testing is so easily attacked that it is a challenging policy to propose.

This isn't to let the Democrats off the hook, only to explain that Democratic voters are not uniformly behind improving these policies.

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Re:Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k by danielheath on Friday May 20, 2022 @06:09PM (#31453132)

By the standards of the rest of the world, the US Democrats are centre-right and American politics have no left. It’s really astonishing how different the Overton window is (and concerning how much my home country is importing US politics.

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Re:Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k by guerrilla on Friday May 20, 2022 @06:16PM (#31453197)

By a European standard they're not even center-right.

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Re:Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k by guerrilla on Friday May 20, 2022 @06:16PM (#31453191)

Yeah, the Democrats are right wing. You're confounding left and Democrats.

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Re:Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday May 20, 2022 @06:21PM (#31453239)

The overton window has shifted so far right that some people think Biden is a socialist.

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Re:Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k by krapp on Friday May 20, 2022 @06:24PM (#31453269)

The Overton window as already there when people were calling Obama, of all people, a Marxist.

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