They can say it is bipartisan, which is rare in a Congress with a more secure boundary between the two Parties than our southern border. But I think you can also call it a Hail Mary when the proposed bill is sponsored by two Senators who have announced their retirement from public service.
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Welfare
London Breed is Falling Down, Falling Down …
San Francisco Mayor London Breed has done the Dems in the Sh!tty by the Bay a solid without meaning to. She has exposed her Party for what it is. They will over-promise. They will run out of other people’s money. Things will have to be cut.
Political Accountability Isn’t
Recently, I came across yet another in a long line of calls for ‘holding accountable those who are supposed to serve us.’ In this case, the writer was talking about public schools. Yes, we should definitely do that. We should hold accountable the people who operate our public school system.
Call Them What They Are: Welfare Schools
Anyone who knows me has heard me quote Confucius: The first step towards wisdom is to call things by their right names. What we call things determines how we think about them and how we act toward them. This is why it’s time for us to stop using the term public school and replace it with … Read more
Data Point – How “Poor” Is Really “Poor”?
by Skip
To the point of being three times the median income. Especially after the Government pours your money at them:
‘Your money should follow my child’
A chant that has been gaining popularity is that where education is concerned, ‘the money should follow the child’. A second, related chant is that ‘parents should be able to decide how to spend their education dollars’.
“Your children’s children will live under communism, You Americans are so gullible.”
Nikita Khrushchev was the leader of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s. According to Ezra Taft Benson among others, Nikita Khrushchev said, “Your children’s children will live under communism, You Americans are so gullible.
Government Welfare and Tax Rules Kill Families
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) released a research report Thursday. It argues the design of welfare programs likely keeps some American couples from marriage. Those couples might otherwise get married. If they did marry it would benefit society. Marriage provides empirically validated benefits.
School funding alone won’t help children out of poverty
by Don
To The Daily Sun, Haley Thomas’s 1/29/20 letter makes valid points about childhood and generational poverty, and their negative effects on peoples’ lives. But Thomas’s apparent solution, increased school funding, is simply inadequate, and, based on decades of history, unlikely to improve educational results or reduce poverty. Calling for school funding increases may make people … Read more
Taxpayer Win: SCOTUS Derails Green Card and Illegal Alien Gravy Train
After a series of conflicting circuit court decisions, the US Supreme Court has handed President Trump (and taxpayers) a Yuge Immigration win. Yuge!
Obama Tried to Get People on Food Stamps, Trump Has Helped 6.2 Million Get Off Them
From 2009 to 2012 Democrats added over 15 million people onto food stamps. It didn’t end there. The Feds encouraged states to sign people up for SNAP, Free School Lunches, and Welfare. The Medicaid Expansion provision of ObamaCare existed to get people on that too.
Charles Barkley “Every black person I know has always voted Democratic…all those people are still poor”
Digging deep into the political punditry-well this morning we unearth the cultural and economic musings of Charles Barkley. The NBA star and TNT Sports analyst isn’t impressed with how politicians treat the Black community. Democrats included.
One Solar Bill Gets Governor’s Nod, The Other Gets Vetoed.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. New Hampshire just passed a law that uses solar to help offset the high cost of electricity for low and moderate-income residents. I’m not even sure I can articulate how stupid that is, but I will try.
Data Point – 5.8 million off the Government SNAP welfare program
by Skip
The best form of welfare is a job (reformatted, emphasis mine): Over 5.8 million individuals have discontinued their participation in America’s food stamp program since President Donald Trump’s first full month in office, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data. The most recent USDA data shows that 5,829,890 people discontinued their participation in food … Read more
Educaid
Over time we’ve developed a method for dealing with situations where (1) we don’t want poor people to be denied access to something essential, (2) we don’t want tax money to be wasted on substandard products or services, and (3) we don’t want poorer people to subsidize richer people.
That method works like this. Poor people demonstrate that they can’t afford to pay for X. We let them choose a private provider of X, who meets basic standards, and we give them money that can be spent only on X.
If X is medical care, we call that Medicaid. If it’s heating oil, we call it LIHEAP (the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program). If it’s food, we call it SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or Food Stamps, or EBT cards). If it’s housing, we call it Section 8 (the Housing Choice Voucher Program). And so on.
We Could Also Pay for The Wall If We Stopped Shoveling ‘Welfare’ at Illegal Aliens
On the odd chance that El Chapo’s billions don’t make an appearance at The Wall funding cotillion, there is another way. An unfortunate majority of illegal crossers end up milking US taxpayers for billions in services annually. Money that would be saved by the bushel if even a fraction of the invaders were deterred. Savings that would more than cover the cost of a border ‘wall.’
Notable Quote: Tyler Cowan
by Skip
Our strongest obligations are to contribute to sustainable economic growth and to support the general spread of civilization, rather than to engage in massive charitable redistribution in the narrower sense. In the longer run, greater economic growth and a more stable civilization will help the poor most of all. -Tyler Cowan ( Stubborn Attachments) The highest … Read more
NH Number One In Child Welfare But That’s Just Not Good Enough
So, about your children?
New Hampshire is the highest-ranked state for children’s well-being, according to a national survey released on Wednesday.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Kids Count report, based on data from 2016, ranks New Hampshire first overall and second in economic well-being, with drops in the number of children living in households with high cost burdens and children living in poverty.
Maine’s Embrace of Broad Based Taxes vs. New Hampshire NOT Doing That.
Our good friend Michael Graham, writing at NH Journal, has an article titled “Study: Maine Vs. N.H. Shows “More Government Means More Poverty.”
The annual Family Prosperity Index is out and, while New Hampshire didn’t make the Top 10 (it’s ranked #16), the study’s authors did use the Granite State to make their case for more economic liberty vs. reliance on government. They used the case study of New Hampshire and its neighbor, Maine (FPI ranking: #39).
The result of Maine’s dancing with the tax devil in the “blue” moon light? More government, a shrinking private sector, and one of the highest dependency cultures in the nation.
Quick Thought: Feds Approve NH Medicaid Expansion ‘Work Requirement’
by Skip
Steve beat me to the punch on the announcement that the able-bodied recipients will have to work or be bettering themselves in order to continue to get free healthcare. The Hill added this:
The waiver program will also require co-pays for Medicaid recipients who make more than 100 percent of the poverty level.
“Work requirements help lift able-bodied individuals out of poverty by empowering them with the dignity of work and self-reliability while also allowing states to control the costs of their Medicaid programs. They help people gain the skills necessary for long-term independence and success,” New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said in a statement.
People don’t always value “free” when other people are paying for that “free” thing on an institutional things. I’ve seen it up close when running our daycare. When one has to put their own skinny into the picture,