Antipoverty spending in the past 50 years has not only raised most of the households in the bottom quintile of earners into the middle class, but has also induced many low-income earners to stop working.
Just a few excerpts. Much more detail in the linked WSJ article.
OTOH,there are more than a few who didn't work *as* hard as I did...and that would explain why I'm richer than they are.
“The average middle-income household is only 32% better off than the average bottom-quintile households despite earning more than 13 times as much, having 2.5 times as many of prime working-age individuals employed and working more than twice as many hours a week. “
This isn’t by mistake.
In MA you have to earn over 60,000/year to live as well as those who don’t work.
The destruction of the middle-class is a goal of the Deep State.
EVERY state and govt department has a well fare program.
When the USSR went kaput, there was only one welfare program, the federal pensions.
This is why democrats need to push socialism.
They have started to approach that tipping point where the dependency state (not safety-net programs but full time government dependents) don’t just want TVs and cell phones, they want to keep up with the jones and get free health care and college too.
It’s never about how good you’ve got it. It’s always about how good other people have it.
bkmk
The Truth About Income Inequality..
Some people work harder than others and get paid more and that’s why there is income inequality.
Then there’s the majority of millenials who don’t know how to work and they’re just idiots.
I can do a dish washer Job but can a dish washer do my IT job?-)
Income equality is just a huge steaming plate of BS!
Income inequality is a direct function of general inequality
Those less equal have less income
Inequality can be remedied but it requires poor old hard work
Most of these “inequality” talking points and “theories” are pure bullsh*t.
I’m from Mississippi and we’re pretty much the welfare capital of the U.S. Every time I go into Wal-Mart I’ll see a young 20’s woman with a string of children following behind her, it’s not hard to deduce that she’s unmarried. 100% of the time she’ll pull out the yellow and blue Mississippi EBT card to pay for her goods.
Unwed mothers having children has become the defacto job for part of the population in my state. Having five kids by the time they’re 22 or so guarantees them an income practically for life, not just a subsistence living but a good income of $50-80K a year from all the various government programs. That’s more than most 22 year old women will make if they stay in school, make good grades, and graduate with a bachelor’s degree. The one who gives birth for a living isn’t in debt for student loans either. Many of these women didn’t finish high school and certainly don’t have the work ethic to finish college yet they’re able to manipulate their way into a position where they’re bringing in more money than someone who works hard and attempts to succeed in life.
A cynic would ask who’s the dumb one?