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So driving a relatively expensive car is not at all related to socioeconomic status or means?
(That's not a normative statement.)
EDIT: I'm not saying everyone who drives a Mercedes is somehow super-duper loaded, but it is a relatively high-end car.
"Hey, Craig, Sharon. Home early from work today?"
It's $72 billion a year. It's 1 in 7 Americans. Of course there's fraud involved. There's fraud anchored to any program involving numbers that big.
and then you'd have explain your spotted dick to your wife
okay
thats it
time to pull the plug
lets burn this place down
I love Gradius so much. Did you ever play Sidearms? The old Gradius clone that was actually pretty good?
no, its a credit
I paid in 800 more than I should and got 1800 back
Yeah, but it doesn't include the idiots that would spend their food stamp provided budget on booze if it were totes legal.
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
the most common fraud, by a longshot, is people failing to declare a change in household size
either your (working) SO moves in or your dependent kid moves out.
second most common fraud is people failing to declare under the table income
In wisconsin the food stamp fraud rate is at something like 2%
the military straight up loses pallets of cash
A girl my brother went to school with, along with both her parents, and both her grandparents, were all murdered because they came home from church as two guys were trying to steal their truck.
Idk, I've really only ever seen it used as a tool to other people that a certain segment of society has decided aren't hard enough workers.
You can think that working hard is a good idea and that taking care of yourself is a good thing without ascribing to the very poisonous attitudes which have grown up from protestant work ethic in this country.
And, again, I am talking about the actual real world application of these ideas, not some philosophical discussion or hypothetical pondering.
I have not. I might grab some of the R-Type collections for PS2
the distinction is not completely obvious to me, i guess.
though it's worth mentioning that tax credits are generally in place to incentivize certain behaviors, which is something that is (sometimes) grumbled about when this is done with public assistance outlays.
Yeah but you work hard and poor people don't so it's different.
Note I am not saying this is what anyone in this forum believes, but when you boil it away that's where this idea comes from in the American zeitgeist.
You still paid taxes though. A percentage of your paycheck still went to the government. The "credit" just reduced that percentage slightly.
Hey you know what has a multiplicative effect on the economy and likely generates more revenue than it costs?
Food stamps
Don't kid yourself, my native Québec is as catholic as it gets nowadays yet we still have that FUCK THE POOR mentality.
We give them actual $ instead of food stamps tough but the montlhy amount is so low you can't even afford the rent on a very average appartment. If you don't live in a subsidized appartment, you're pretty much screwed.
You just aren't taking enough of the cost of a car into consideration. Think of cost to repair, premium fuel, etc. etc and you're not specifying the condition of the vehicle...
So the long and th short of it is that it's just dumb to judge people by what they drive/how they look, and that's why I find statements like that funny.
He paid FICA and medicare, yeah.
Do it! R-Type Final is also good. Gradius V is a masterpiece.
it's not the purpose of welfare to incentivize behaviors. the purpose is to keep people from starving in the streets.
there's nothing intrinsically wrong with using public funds to incentivize behaviors IMO. that's what, for example, Medicare is doing right now with electronic medical records adoption.
the problem is that when you start applying incentives to welfare, they don't work, because they're based on a fallacious notion that a substantial percentage of the poor are poor because they have insufficient incentive to be not-poor
so you just end making peoples' lives more difficult for no good benefit
Alcohol purchases didn't increase when there was a cash handout instead of food stamps in studies where it was legal.
I love Gradius V.
I hate how PS2 games look like shit on my HDTV.
middle class 4 lyf
I want a pallet of cash.
now we just call them "TVs"
it's a straight up credit. im pretty sure you could not work and have 0 income and 0 taxes paid and still collect $1000 for spawning.
as opposed to a deduction like you get on your mortgage or for chartiable donations which just reduces the taxable portion of your income
@tyrannus fact check me yo
This right here is why this is a stupid argument, and we should all agree to vote according to corn subsidies next election.
One of my fraternity brothers was on the football team and one of those student athlete scholar types. On summer break his buddy got into a car accident and he was in a coma for months. He made it out of the coma, but with massive brain damage. He lives with his parents and makes a living going to schools as a cautionary tale against drunk driving.
He wasn't driving drunk.
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
My $700 was like a $300 TV two months later.
I picked the worst time to buy one.
PCSX2 allows for upscaling on your PC!
But my mom is pushing me to like, go to school full time and ask my bosses for a raise and all this shit
And I'm like 'n-no? I like my life?'
but she doesn't listen
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How does the car being more expensive due to hidden costs make it any less of a high-end car, which presumably mostly people with higher incomes could afford ...?
Progress!
I can't wait to buy my first <$1000 4k TV.
I bought an open-box TV at Best Buy and got $50 more shaved off because it didn't have the screws to attach it to the stand, and then I went to Home Depot and bought replacement screws for $1.50.
This contrast for the ct scan is doing the same thing, I probably won't even be able to hold still