Posted on 10/25/2017 10:51:49 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
It is silly for Uncle Sam to pay glamour city rents so people can be idle in expensive cities like San Francisco and New York.
I would cap a housing voucher for a housing unit at
$250 for a first US citizen adult (age 21+) in the unit, plus
$150 for a second US citizen adult (age 21+) in the unit, plus
$200 if there is a male child aged three to fifteen (or in high school and under age 19) in the unit, plus
$200 if there is a female child aged three to fifteen (or in high school and under age 19) in the unit, plus
$100 for any number of the above
disabled adult -> $350 cap (1-bedroom unit)
[the federal government pays about $700/month in disability benefits too]
mom+newborn -> $350 cap (1-bedroom unit)
mom+newborn+dad -> $500 cap (1-bedroom unit)
mom+4-year old son -> $550 cap (2-bedroom unit)
mom+dad+five-year old son-> $700 cap (2-bedroom unit)
mom+dad+3-year daughter+6-year old son -> $900 cap (3-bedroom unit)
My proposal would generally make it wise for mom and dad to stay together and greatly reduce the welfare state incentive to ditch the daddy.
My proposal would crimp the incentive to make another baby to get more federal money since there would be a three-year waiting period.
My proposal would mainly impact Democrats in expensive blue cities and their suburbs in blue states.
Ain’t gonna happen.
But for God, it won't happen. But WITH God, ALL things are possible. Watch out. I think it's coming...
If they don’t suffer the consequences of poor decisions, they don’t learn those decisions are - and lead to - poor.
Some people just refuse to give up bad behavior. Why fund it?
At that point, you’re just one step from Universal Basic Income.
May as well give everyone a flat poverty-line check; those earning enough net $0, those not get assistance to use as they see fit.
...oh, right, a significant fraction will squander it, then demand more - while teaching a generation to live solely off the state, and completely wipe out any notion of work.
Yes.
If that were done I can guarantee there would be plenty of cheap housing.
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