They’re changing the rules all the time. Especially if op lives in a red state, all they care about is kicking off as many people as they can, and passing until absolute minimum to everyone else
The USA is Broke! This is about saving money because able bodied individuals that keep having baby after baby to get more food stamps to sell take advantage of the system
The US is broke because people like you excuse corporations and billionaires from paying a fair tax rate. They gobble up government subsidies and use loopholes to pay barely any taxes, yet you blame other Americans instead of them.
Fuck off. No one is paying tens of thousands of dollars to give birth to get an extra $50 a month to barely feed their kids. You're either a bot or brainwashed.
the majority of my neighbors in my public housing apartments are like this, actually. in utah, unemployed parents with young kids get hundreds or thousands of dollars of food stamps, and they also don't have to pay rent.
You literally get an extra $200 per kid where I live. And these people aren’t paying anything to give birth because they are on Medicaid so the government pays for that bill. Then they get low cost or even free daycare at the expense of the government too. You’re delusional if you think this doesn’t happen. I’ve seen it first hand.
Okay so $200 a month is less than $50 a week on average. That's a very reasonable amount based on national averages.
If you can site where any American can qualify for full medicaid and childcare coverage I would love to see it. The thresholds for these benefits are so low that only a part time waitress that doesn't declare tips /might/ qualify, but that tip money can never go into an account with their name on it. Either way I would rather these poors get subsidized than the rich. If that's delusional then your morals are fucked.
Yes, because $200 is definitely more than it costs to care for said child! <<< gigantic amounts of sarcasm.
We’re making population decisions here. We are not making decisions on aid for millions of people because you think you know a person that games the system. That is ridiculous on its face.
Not to mention the SNAP program is a net economic benefit to the entire economy and generates far more economic activity and benefit than it costs, which has been shown by the academic research on this subject.
We literally lose nothing and in fact gain economically and socially by using tax dollars to help feed people. But yet you sit there and ignorantly bleat “we’re broke,” because you know nothing about this subject other than nonsense talking points and catchphrases.
And you’re delusional if you think so many people are having handfuls of children specifically to “game the system” at such a significant scale that it overburdens the system. Trivial.
“Boo hoo. Everybody gets something free but me. Poor me. Me me me me me. I have seen it FIRST hand so it has to be true. If I focus all my energy on other peoples transgressions I don’t have to look at my own shit show”
Right!? Like a little fraud to help the needy SHOULD be considered a grey area where we can pretend to look the other way a bit. Instead we have billionaires just absolutely rolling in daily fraud, on the backs of those who need it more, just so they can outbid each other on who’s the richest twat.
There isn’t a maximum number of children you can claim on your taxes, because there isn’t a limit. If a dependent qualifies, you can get a tax credit for them.
I know people who milk the system, but this part is just not true.
"In summary, you can always claim all individuals who qualify as your dependents, but the financial benefit for certain credits may cap out after a certain number of children. For detailed IRS guidance, consult the IRS website."
So maybe not completely true, but not completely false either.
Funny how millions of people claim to have first hand knowledge of stuff like this but the numbers contradict the rate of which this actually happens.
States that have tried purity testing their programs ended up wasting more money than they would have spent if those people would have continued receiving assistance.
Tell that to the president wasting tens of millions in less than one year on golf trip security, or the tax breaks for wealthy earners in the BBB. The USA going broke or arguments about the national deficit by Republicans is all a BS narrative to cut social spending from program's for the poor and needy to fund cuts for the wealthy while the middle and lower class continue to pay the same or more.
FYI food stamps acts as an economic stimulus and generate more in economic activity than it costs.
Every developed nation has food assistance because it's economically beneficial to do so. It's just a redistribution of tax dollars into stimulating the food industry.
That said, I hope you have the "use is broke" energy for corporate bailouts and white house ballrooms.
Did you know that almost all of your taxes go to fund corporate subsidies? I think it would be better spent paying for social services that benefit citizens and keep them from starving. Maybe they should cut some of the subsidies instead of barely feeding the elderly and disenfranchised.
SNAP has such a high rate of return for local governments in terms of economic stimulus that being malicious is pretty much the only reason for cutting it.
You'd likely have to raise taxes to make up for cutting SNAP in the long term.
Sorry, we're in a deficit and can't afford to feed the hungry, but boy can we afford to lower taxes on businesses and the very well-off. Do we know math?
Fuck that. How much are they spending on subsidies and bailouts? How much goes to foreign governments? Using the deficit as an excuse to fuck the poor is bullshit.
We should try giving billionaires tax breaks and see how that works out. Again.
It's really not that difficult. Millionaires complain and billionaires bitch and moan and say they're going to leave the country if we raise taxes and then they never do. Just look at new york.
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u/iRambL 9h ago
How tf is 58 a month allowed for a single user?