Basically people who work more are having their money taken from them in order to give to people who work less. Makes no sense, economically, or morally.
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Actually the people on welfare work more hours than those who aren't in poverty. Not sure what that has to do with Obamacare, but to be fair, a lot of people are uneducated about it.
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Edited by DeclinedA1: 2/6/2014 12:19:10 AMProve it. Provide a source.
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http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/apr08/vol65/num07/The-Myth-of-the-Culture-of-Poverty.aspx [quote]MYTH: Poor parents are uninvolved in their children's learning, largely because they do not value education. The Reality: Low-income parents hold the same attitudes about education that wealthy parents do (Compton-Lilly, 2003; Lareau & Horvat, 1999; Leichter, 1978). Low-income parents are less likely to attend school functions or volunteer in their children's classrooms (National Center for Education Statistics, 2005)—not because they care less about education, but because they have less access to school involvement than their wealthier peers. They are more likely to work multiple jobs, to work evenings, to have jobs without paid leave, and to be unable to afford child care and public transportation. It might be said more accurately that schools that fail to take these considerations into account do not value the involvement of poor families as much as they value the involvement of other families.[/quote]
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Edited by DeclinedA1: 2/6/2014 1:39:28 AM[quote]"the severe shortage of living-wage jobs means that many poor adults must work two, three, or four jobs. According to the Economic Policy Institute (2002), poor working adults spend more hours working each week than their wealthier counterparts."[/quote] That says nothing about welfare. All it says is that poor people may have multiple jobs. They too, are subsidizing people to work less.
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Is it really that bad of an assumption to say that impoverished people are on welfare?
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Yes, because you're distorting my argument. I initially said the recipients of subsidies provided the taxpayers will choose to work less. This came from a report provided by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. You then provided a link providing evidence that poor people work more jobs. You then somehow tried to relate poor people as being on welfare. Not all poor people are on welfare. That is simply a faulty assumption. You still didn't answer my question.
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Your argument is based off the false assumption that welfare (any kind of welfare, be that subsidies or whatever) means that people are going to choose not to work.