“So, the more unemployment we have, and the more spent on anti-poverty programs (already a trillion plus annually), the better off we are?”
Every time a state or municipality has implemented rules requiring able bodied welfare recipients to work for their welfare checks or attend mandatory job training, the welfare rate has gone done. Why? Because many already have jobs. Having to report to specific places for training means they can’t go to their regular jobs. Then they don’t show up for training or to work.
How about we clean up the welfare roles before we try to use that to justify tariffs?
I haven't used it to justify tariffs. I've said the loss of thousands of factories and millions of jobs have significantly increased unemployment and the millions of Americans qualifying for the some of the trillion annually paid out in government poverty programs.
And we can add that those job losses also contributed to the skyrocketing false claims for disability benefits.