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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
simple answer is this
theres a poverty level the government has set, if you make below this level the idea is to give you an incentive to try to pull you out of poverty. Having less people living in poverty makes for a better society. 
so there are 2 basic issues at play.
#1 Does giving money to poor people help them break out of poverty ?
#2 Do you think having less poor people would make society better ? |
If you make below poverty, the government gives you money as an incentive to work your way out of poverty and then have that bonus money taken away? Explain how that works.
Joe Blow is below poverty. Works 40 hours a week, minimum wage, three children. Government gives them $200 a month for food or electricity or whatever. Joe Blow picks up a side job working 10 hours a week which brings in around $100, maybe $75 after taxes totaling $300 a month. Now he is working another 40 hours a month to make 100 extra dollars. Assuming this is all "on the books." I'm not seeing any incentive?