[Jack Hammer]

Taxing the hard-working public to pay bills for those who - for whatever reason - are not making big dough is simply a cash purchase of votes.

Moreover, if you turn the constitution inside out looking for the place where it says that it’s perfectly okay to rob Peter to pay Paul, you’ll never find it.

[from occupied ga]

Moreover, if you turn the constitution inside out looking for the place where it says that it’s perfectly okay to rob Peter to pay Paul, you’ll never find it.

No, but you will get Paul's support and votes so that the plunder will keep coming.

[grania]

Whenever a segment of the population demands living wages, more poor people are imported. They depress wages, and meanwhile the US taxpayer subsidizes them.

I wonder if perhaps a war on poverty could've worked if (1) the US stayed self-sufficient without rights and power moving up away from individuals, communities and states and (2) the US hadn't continually imported more poor people to undermine our economy and our values