GOP stands up for individual rights - unless you are poor
"25 bucks is all you get, scum! (Although many ATMs give out cash in multiples of $20) so, $20 is all you get, scum, because of FREEDOM!"
Cash is fungible, you won't be able to tell if a recipient is using his/her benefits "correctly". A person who uses TANF cash to pay rent will free up money earned at work to pay for cruises, diamond rings, municipal bonds, bail bonds, or contributions to political candidates. (You were aware TANF requires recipients be employed). This is about government punishing poor people. If you truly cared about doing something for poor people, you would raise the minimum wage so that there would be fewer poor people.
"25 bucks is all you get, scum! (Although many ATMs give out cash in multiples of $20) so, $20 is all you get, scum, because of FREEDOM!"
Cash is fungible, you won't be able to tell if a recipient is using his/her benefits "correctly". A person who uses TANF cash to pay rent will free up money earned at work to pay for cruises, diamond rings, municipal bonds, bail bonds, or contributions to political candidates. (You were aware TANF requires recipients be employed). This is about government punishing poor people. If you truly cared about doing something for poor people, you would raise the minimum wage so that there would be fewer poor people.
P.S. Concerning HCR 5010 - If the Constitution gives state governments the
right/duty to "protect the liberty of our People", then legislatures around the
country, and in particular, the Kansas legislature, have done a pretty poor job.
In particular, the efforts to making voting more difficult, the denial of health
insurance to low income citizens, the shifting of tax burden from state
government to local governments, and the embrace of the Laffer curve, and the
creation of a system of legalized bribery called campaign contributions.
Thankfully, there is a Federal government that, in some cases, can save us from
our neighbors at the state capitol.
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