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Gah.
Kill the Federal Reserve, and all this becomes impossible.
Actually, you don’t have have to wait till tonight to make your donation.
DUH on me...
At least our slackards in Pennsylvania have the ambition to drink the damn soda first.
I got this ion an email yesterday. The email included, “Check it out at Snopes,” with a link. The link led to a blank page at Snopes. I tried everything I could to find it at Snopes, to na avail. This has happened before. Gonna go follow your links now.
Thankfully, Texas is #47!
Add in what the bureaucrats are paid and other overhead and you can double the amount easily.
Grandma volunteers to be the foster parent (family members get preference). Grandma then gets funds from the foster care agency for taking care of the kid. In New York, for example, the basic reimbursment rate is $17-$23/day depending on age. If the child is deemed "special needs", the rate can go up from $37 to $57/day (about a third of foster kids are judged "special needs").
That adds up to a yearly $6,205 to $20,805 PER CHILD, just in BASELINE payments. This does not include the free school meals, clothing allowances, and other payments. So grandma can stay home with the kids as her "job", while mom gets welfare for the kids which she keeps and does not put up for welfare.
Legal Plunder Has Many Names
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.
/Bastiat 1801-1850
Price is important but so is volume. How many people in each state are using such programs?
I have always felt that at least half of the population are truly worthless, prideless, backstabbing bastards, see no reason here to change that point of view.
Are these based on a single person? So that, someone with kids would be getting MUCH more? Does this just include money that they receive, or also the value of “free stuff”? Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Dinesh Dsouza said that his uncle once said that he wanted to go to America, because he wanted to go a place where the poor people are fat.