One-sixth of Americans don’t have enough food to eat

Re:One-sixth of Americans don’t have enough food to eat by viraptor on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @10:37PM (#8045737)

I'd say this is false dichotomy. Version 1 does not have to control your life. They would have to use more reporting on peoples' lives, (so that it's known who is actually poor and whether people are paying into the pool) but that doesn't mean controlling them. At least not in the way this sentence seems to imply.

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Re:One-sixth of Americans don’t have enough food to eat by cscurmudgeon on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @10:41PM (#8045752)

Taxation is just fungible control. I largely meant paying more taxes. But some amount of control might be needed. E.g., more stricter drug laws, there should be some financial friction on reproduction based on number and age (9 kids at 31 is just amazing).

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Re:One-sixth of Americans don’t have enough food to eat by throwaway7548 on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @10:48PM (#8045784)

In 1800-ies the typical American mother bore 7 children. So nothing amazing. Standard human biology.

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Re:One-sixth of Americans don’t have enough food to eat by cscurmudgeon on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @10:54PM (#8045803)

Um. Yeah. I was not talking about human biology here. The quality of life of the lady mentioned is not that different from an 1800s American middle class person.

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