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Originally Posted by kane
Yes and no. In a perfect world that is how it works. However, we don't live in a perfect world.. Say someone takes a job for $3 per hour. You can't live on $3 per hour. There might be exceptions to the rule, but the average person cannot support themselves on $3 per hour. So they will still likely be getting food stamps, possibly housing assistance, welfare, babysitting assistance etc. so they aren't really out of the system, they end up getting moved to a different part of the system.
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That is exactly my point. Heck there are people making $7.25 an hour that get foodstamps etc. at $3 they'd get even MORE. Where does this money come from. Ironically from the people bitching that the minimum wage is too high. So their taxes would have to be RAISED to give these people more welfare money. Also lowering the wages means less money coming in for SS and Medicare taxes which means the deficit gets even higher. If raised the minimum wage to $10 an hour then those on welfare would recieve LESS welfare and foodstamp of they get any at all. That SAVES money. They would get LESS money for the earned income credit. That SAVE money. They would pay MORE SS and medicare taxes. That SAVES money.
Also people on foodstamps don't pay sales tax on the food they buy. Where I live people like me not on foodstamps pay 8.25%. Maybe if there were less peole on foodstamps the tax on the food I'm buying wouldn't have to be 8.25% because there would be more people paying taxes on it. The way you get people off foodstamps is to increase their wages enough that they no longer qualify for them. This isn't rocket science people.