[liberty or death]

Allowing any government(state or fed) to decide the “poverty line” means this is a socialist program from the beginning. Danger, danger, run Will run!

[Maneesh]

That is a bigger issue. A whole bunch of social programs are run based on the poverty line which I agree is bogus. However the impact of this program is still less freeloaders which is a good thing. Next we have to cut off health care to illegals and then make it a national market place for health insurance. Then the states can pick the cheapest bare bones plan that the poor get as freeloaders. We will have the poor subsidized by the govt so let’s lower the cost of that subsidy to the truly poor legal citizens and have all the rest of us pay for health care. If we can get it down to this, that will be huge victory but we will never have an idealistic situation but the poor have no govt program to help them.