Kind of harsh and it won’t happen but it is true. The commentor that said it was referencing the article; Body Collector in Detroit (The Most Liberal City in USA).
There used to be money in Detroit. Known in the 50s as the Paris of the Midwest, it had a population of 1.8 million, 83 percent white. It now has fewer than 900,000 and is 83 percent black. It is the poorest big city in the nation, with a third of the population living below the poverty line.
What happened? ” The city subsidized unwed mothers with health care, utilities, and rent. Whatever you subsidize you get more of; Whatever you tax you get less of; Therefore: Tax the poor!”
I have been saying for years that we should tax Liberalism! Surely the Libs won’t mind, since they LOVE taxes. And since it is well known that the more you tax something the less of it ypou’ll have, well, the conclusion is obvious.
Tax Liberals more and more just up the point where it almost disappears. Leave a small percentage just to act as a political vaccine for the system, so we remember what Liberalism did/tried to do to this Country and why it had to be taxed to near extinction.
Here’s an example of a typical SSI & SSP receipient.
My neighbor Joe. He lived from 1991 to 1996 on Welfare with his wife and they had 1 child.
During that time in late 1991, Joe inherited his Grandmother’s paid for home.
He told HUD/Section 8 that he had found a suitable housing unit that would accept HUD/Section 8 vouchers!
Except it was HIS home, free & clear!
So, he had HUD/Section 8 pay him rent as he made his own FRAUD rental receipts.
In 1996 when Welfare Reform happened, he and his wife had become so comfortable sitting in a paid for home now valued at $450,000 on just over 25 acres that he decided to apply & qualify for SSI & SSP.
So, he ‘acted crazy’. He acted like he was violent with the Social Security screening Psychiatrist and qualified for lifetime checks.
Now it is 2009. His daughter just turned 18, and they tried to qualify her too for lifetime SSI & SSP as they were getting very worried as to how they would ‘cut down’ on their lifestyle without her portion of her 2 checks per month.
She did NOT qualify as she is very very healthy.
So, his wife and daughter got part time jobs under-the-table.
They just qualified on his SSI & SSP, and his wife’s IHSS she get’s paid ($9.50 per hour) for his cooking, cleaning & shopping/driving.
The SSI & SSP does not know that his wife and daughter are working part-time under the table so he does not get CUT down on his $907 per month cash.
Now his wife and daughter have bought a brand new car.
And, his daughter had received her FAFSA/Pell Grant & CalGRANT check from the college reimbursment department.
She qualified for over a total of $8,150 for the year and got a check for around $6,000 outside of tuition.
Her books are free from a low-income program called, BOG.
Since Joe own’s his home free & clear, and any SSI/SSP CAN own a home of any size and any value whatsoever, he pays his Property Taxes independently each year.
His taxes are $360 a year. He receives an SSI/SSP State reimbursment of 95% and therefore pays a total housing expense of $60 a year.
They ALL receive free MediCAL. The daughter now also qualifies for EBT-Dignity Food Stamp Debit Card.
They get low-income heat/air conditioning assistance.
There’s alot more, just not enough time in the day to write all the Perk’s they receive.
I think if Obama is going to do a ‘Means Test’ upon Senior Citizens to determine who get’s cut down on their checks, he should do a ‘Means Test’ on SSI/SSP’s that own extremely valuable real property.
Most every single SSI/SSP in my community own’s their property Free & Clear thru inheritance.
It seems Un-fair that a Senior Citizen who worked for a living has to be subjected to a impending ‘Means Test’ yet SSI & SSP pay ZERO TAXES and don’t have to bother to have any ‘Means Test’. Not fair they don’t pay a penny of tax at all.