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Originally Posted by perrjojo
I hope that they are a typical welfare family but many are not. I have a niece who won't take a promotion because she will lose food stamps. She and her husband go to college, have 3 children. They lived in subsidized housing, get grants for school, receive food stamps and pay no income tax. They do however get back 12,000 dollars per year in earned income credit. They have been doing this for 9 years now. They have 2 cars, 3 TVs, cable TV, iPhones, and the children have all of the computer game players. Last year they used the money they got back from IRS to take a cruise.
How do we sort out these people? I don't know but it is becoming a larger problem each year.
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As I said before there are welfare cheats as well as those who have legitimate needs. What I have tried to say, probably ineloquently, is that it is not only welfare recipients who bleed the economy, but many (not all, probably not most) wealthy people too. To demonize all the poor as lazy and taking advantage of the system is simply unfair and mean spirited.