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Originally Posted by adios
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However, the more people we give food stamps to the more people not working. Less workers = lower tax revenues and less workers = slower economic growth which will lead to lower future tax revenues. I'm not saying to cut all food stamps, but cutting the length of how long one can receive benefits would encourage people to look for a job a little quicker and harder.
Let's be real here, people on food stamps generally speaking don't pay a lot of income taxes, probably none when employed.
Cutting waste in govt spending should be high on everybody's list. The safety net is better and more sustainable when it is. Crony capitalism crap like Solyndra, etc. hurts the safety net viability. DOD wasteful spending is just as bad. All the wasteful pork barrel spending is included. Cutting govt wasteful spending is one form of entitlement reform.
Dang, adios had an 'on' day yesterday and I missed it.
Couldn't agree with him more here. I mean, he still had to get that silly Solyndra jab in because Obama is the worst person ever, never mind how much
waste Obama manages to cut.
Adios must be cheering the latest
calls for shrinking the army along with me.
I would add to bahbah that part of the point of food stamps is to keep people eating, which means they spend money on food, which means stores have to buy more food, which means companies need to hire more people. So food stamps are actually good for keeping employment up, instead of letting it spiral out of control.
As far as cutting food stamps, that would be another way to cut entitlements to corporations: make them pay their employees wages that allow them to buy their own food and stop making the tax payer pick up the difference.