Comments on: The feds giveth, and the state taketh away

By: Rage

Rage — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:56:05 +0000

Todd, how much of that 35% is payroll taxes (FICA)? Those who make more than about 90g a year don’t pay those, you know. But they’ve benefited hugely from the tax cuts. The $300 payments aside, I would wager that you couldn’t buy a large pizza with your “savings.”

And deliberately running up huge deficits (as they’re doing now) is going to cost a hell of lot more in the long run. Remember, we’re borrowing the money–with interest.

Fiscal irresponsibility is a trademark of this president, as it was with his economic mentor, Ronald Reagan. Only Bush is far, far worse, and he has a “yup, boss” Congress behind him.

writerdog accurately described the problem with the current system. It’s very punitive, and any minimal success is immediately punished, for the supposed purpose of saving tax dollars.

By: Rage

Rage — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:10:49 +0000

You’ll find out.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:25:21 +0000

The reality is, there are going to be cutbacks. Nobody, not even the Democrats, have the political will to raise taxes. Everyone in Washington knows they’re too high as it is.

You may not like the war, but that money isn’t going to be given to the poor in any case. I’d rather it just be given back to me, so that I can donate as I see fit.

Anyway, the point of my response to Ahmad has been completely missed.

By: Damoon

Damoon — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:28:31 +0000

Todd, the government is all he has, if it wasn’t for the few benefits he receives he would be dead for sure. It’s better than nothing, but people like him can’t survive anymore cutbacks.Personally, I’d rather see 35% of my income go to help people like “John”, than pouring money into some crazy war that we can’t win.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:21:41 +0000

Okay. Whatever that has to do with anything.

By: Rage

Rage — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:48:05 +0000

Remember that when your house is leveled by a tornado.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:47:34 +0000

You admit that the government has failed to protect that poor man. I have news for you, the government fails at nearly everything they try to do. And yet, you want to continue to throw money down the toilet.

I wish I could help, but the feds are confiscating 35 percent of my paycheck every week.

By: Damoon

Damoon — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:43:55 +0000

One of my clients who I mentioned previously in a post just got a $12 increase in his monthly social security income, then received a letter stating his food stamp allowance will be cut from $26 to $16 per month. I wonder how much the bureaucrats spent to implement these changes, why not just leave it all alone, afterall, isn’t it just six of one and half dozen of the other?

“John” is mentally ill and retarded. He grew up in a state institution and has only lived on his own for the last 10 yrs (he’s in his 50s). He recieves $567 per month in social security income and $16 per month in food stamps now, out of that he pays his own rent, which is $340 per month.IT IS the government’s responsibility to take care of him, Todd, that’s why social programs are so important. Without them, he’d be homeless. The institutions are gone, and the safety net put into place to help the severe and persistant mentally ill and disabled is being eroded. That’s one of the reasons why we have so many homeless now. Many of them are the mentally ill who have slipped through the cracks in the system.The next time you’re driving down Broadway and see some dishelved person talking to themselves, instead of fearing or judging them, please realize they’re most likely a result of the failed government system that is supposed to be protecting the vulnerable.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:12:40 +0000

It isn’t the government’s job to put food in anybody’s children’s mouths. That would be the job of their parents.

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:11:57 +0000

That’s what you get when you elect republicans.

Cut capital gains tax on the rich and fund it by stealing the food out of the mouths of poor children.

By: writerdog

writerdog — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:47:52 +0000

I had the same thing happen when I took a minumim wage job. By taking the job we had to put the childs in daycare. Which was $300.00 a month. My take home for the job was $400.00 a month. we received $300.00 amonth in food stamps. We lost the food stamps because I made too much and that fact that in order to go to work I had to take on another $300.00 a month in bills.

Welfare the way it is set up is a trap. You can not get a head so you can get off of it. Right now it is better to be on welfare then to work for $7.00 an hour. The system needs to be overhauled and common sense installed. Along with the standard of living, so there is a insentive to get off of welfare.