Reply to Fairfax county pilot program to give 750 a month to low income families

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "Fairfax county pilot program to give 750 a month to low income families"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Liberal here, I do not approve.

Give them food stamps.  Health insurance.
Subsidize housing.
School Supplies.  Clothes.  Gas.
Education - skills, ESL, whatever is needed.

But not cash.  I want to know exactly what my taxes are being used for.

[/quote]

With guaranteed income programs,  you know exactly what your taxes are being used for: extra income for low-income families, to do what they believe will provide the most benefit for them.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/in-mississippi-a-long-running-guaranteed-income-program-is-helping-black-mothers[/quote]

I understand and I read the article.

It also could be used for mani pedis, cigarettes and booze.  Never mind anything illegal.

This is not what I want from a poverty relief program.  If we want to keep our poverty relief programs, [b]they need to be palatable to some majority of taxpayers[/b].  If even I can't get behind this, I can only imagine what conservative people think.[/quote]

+1 I work in federal government procurement and there are so many hoops we have to jump through to make sure tax players dollars are used responsibly. We would never get away with just trusting people to use the money wisely. I'm closer to the left than right, and this sort of thing is frustrating. I think it's performative, actually, and does more harm than good in the long run because it makes so many people mad and distrustful of government programs. [/quote]

Yes.  I also fear it feeds into conservative rants about people on food stamps buying STEAK!  Buying LOBSTER!  OMG how dare they.

If we make sure the poor have basic needs met, most good people cannot object to those things.  Food, health care, housing, clothing, clean water to drink (ahem).  Most good people would agree they don't want to see little kids hungry, sick, homeless, etc.  You can at least try to appeal to their sense of right and wrong. But you start talking about just giving their parents cash and you are inviting fury about how that cash is spent.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics