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Topic	Hold up, people would rather be on welfare than work at Target or Old Navy?
action52 03/15/24 3:22:32 AM #15:	FL81 posted... * get job at Target or Old Navy at barely above minimum wage * suddenly make "too much money" to qualify for welfare the system is broken Notice how, with the graduated tax system, they have all this complicated math to make sure the rate only changes on what you earn over a certain amount. Because if they didn't, rich people would throw a fit at the very possibility that they could end up with less money because their salary went up. "What is even the point of working?" they would scream. Meanwhile if you're trying to pull yourself out of poverty? Nobody cares, and if you'd rather not work and get more money they'll say you're a lazy bum leeching off of hardworking taxpayers. --- "It's Brockin' time." Erin Brockovich, Erin Brockovich <cite>action52 posted [p:979377450] in Hold up, p... [t:80721981]...</cite> <quote>FL81 posted... </cite><quote>* get job at Target or Old Navy at barely above minimum wage* suddenly make "too much money" to qualify for welfarethe system is broken</quote>Notice how, with the graduated tax system, they have all this complicated math to make sure the rate only changes on what you earn over a certain amount. Because if they didn't, rich people would throw a fit at the very possibility that they could end up with less money because their salary went up. "What is even the point of working?" they would scream. Meanwhile if you're trying to pull yourself out of poverty? Nobody cares, and if you'd rather not work and get more money they'll say you're a lazy bum leeching off of hardworking taxpayers. --- "It's Brockin' time."Erin Brockovich, Erin Brockovich</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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