I’d go the other way.
Cut off section 8, Obamaphones and food stamps and just hand them cash every month. Let them learn to live on that and make their own budgets, pay rents, buy food and stuff.
Cut out about 75%-80% of the bureaucracy too, this would be a huge savings for the taxpayers and not really a “cut” for the recipient (except in expensive states and places like NYC)
OH if states want to kick in some $$ because they have a higher cost of living, that’s on them.
Failure would be on the recipient alone, not the taxpayers.
Pretty sure we’re on the same page. If you don’t want them to have the money, don’t hand it to them. If you do, hand it to them, then don’t whine as to whatever they spend it on.
As for cutting all these stupid programs - absolutely. I’m sure that we spend a fortune each month on Obamaphones - for services which could be purchased for under $20 a month.
Section 8 housing just encourages more fraud. If the government really wants to be in the housing business, then build it and police it. Of course, such projects have proved to be awful - so government’s solution is to spread the pain around and give every community their own little projects...
Go back to handing out bags of flour, tubs of lard, cans of beans, ham, and cheese. Don’t like what you’re given? THEN DON’T ASK FOR IT.
Each time, government comes up with a solution that causes more problems. Government is almost always the problem, and almost never the solution.
First of all, that would never work because the reason that a large percentage of welfare recipient are poor is that they have a low IQ and an inability to make sensible decisions, particularly budget decisions.
But more important than letting them learn to budget is letting them learn to earn. I say cut government welfare to ZERO and let charities do charity work. The government should not be a charity.