Whats Fair When it Comes to Taxes?

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by SBXVII

Your right. If people were told "you can't" or "never will" then they won't. You didn't listen to them good job. But what about the single mother with 5 kids who can't afford to pay for child care and work at McDonalds... the only place to would hire her? In VA when she goes to Social Services and asks for help or "assistance" they tell her she has a job or she makes too much money due to the job and they can't help her. So what does that mother do? She quits her job and then refiles and gets the full benifits for what they think a mother with 5 kids should get instead of simply supplementing what she was already making.

Our system of Gov. is bad from the top all the way down to the county level.

this is the one problem i was addressing in my orig post. when you actually look into all the programs a person is better off not working and collecting all the diff types of govt assistance than working a mcdonalds job or as a cashier at walmart.

a person is much much better off (and probably making the equivalent of 50-60k) if they claim unemployment, etc but work an under the table job. its a windfall really. pay close to nothing for housing, even if you stop paying rent the landlord has a tough time kicking you out b/c your sec 8, sell your food stamps at 50 cents to the dollar, free healthcare and dental for you and your whole family.

unless you make more than 50k why work a job you have to claim income on?