[PapaBear3625]

At age 30, a single parent earning $10,000 a year faces a 72.3 percent marginal tax rate on an additional dollar earned due to their loss of welfare benefits; this rate is substantially higher than the 36.9 percent tax rate on the single parent earning $200,000.

Simple solution: cut welfare benefits so she has no choice but to work or starve. (Or, in real life, has no choice but to get married to some man who will support her).

[dogcaller]

I believe that Benjamin Franklin once said ‘...make no one too comfortable in their poverty.’ Perhaps our current ‘rulers’ are wiser than he.