Thursday, December 30, 2004
Poor get richer, live longer. Good news roundup by Radly Balko via instapundit.
This is the genuinely poor, like chinese, rather than the poverty lobby, making $10,000+ in government benefits packages plus x in off the books income plus y in declared income, and complaining about being poor.
That lifestyle isn't easy, but poverty isn't their problem.
And of course i'm not saying government benefits go mostly to the poor. Taxation tends to involve wealth transfers from the poor to the rich, especially when calculated in terms of percent of disposable income.
This is the genuinely poor, like chinese, rather than the poverty lobby, making $10,000+ in government benefits packages plus x in off the books income plus y in declared income, and complaining about being poor.
That lifestyle isn't easy, but poverty isn't their problem.
And of course i'm not saying government benefits go mostly to the poor. Taxation tends to involve wealth transfers from the poor to the rich, especially when calculated in terms of percent of disposable income.
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