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To: jazusamo
Democrats argue that if fully phased in by 2016, it would push a family of three above the federal poverty line - a level such earners have not surpassed since 1979.

Wouldn't it be a lot easier to simply lower the arbitrary poverty line? It's all a dumb numbers game anyway.

2 posted on 04/30/2014 9:50:39 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: FoxInSocks

Why not just declare poverty and homelessness illegal?

If it works for healthcare...


4 posted on 04/30/2014 9:57:27 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: FoxInSocks

“Democrats argue that if fully phased in by 2016, it would push a family of three above the federal poverty line - a level such earners have not surpassed since 1979. “

Except the ones losing their jobs from it.


6 posted on 04/30/2014 10:10:53 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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