Earlier I quoted Dennis Prager's thesis that Liberal/Progressive policies destroy the character and social fabric of America....
In part:
4. The Liberal Welfare State causes people to distain work, efforts of various kinds. According to one listener, in Germany, if you own a store, and desire to stay open an extra hour....you cannot: it is unfair to your competitor. Harder work to get ahead? Out of the question.
7. The Welfare State corrupts family life. Study the effects on the inner city, where women learned to rely on the government as their husband.
The government conducted a study, 1971-1978 known as the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment, or SIME-DIME, in which low income families were give a guaranteed income, a welfare package with everything liberal policy makers could hope for. Result: for every dollar of extra welfare given, low income recipients reduced their labor by 80 cents.
http://www.policyarchive.org/handle/...eams/12794.pdf
[The results for husbands show that the combination of negative income tax plans tested in SIME/DIME which, as already mentioned, represents on average a relatively generous cash transfer program with a guarantee of 115% of the poverty line and a tax rate of 50% has a significant negative effect on hours worked per year. ]Overview of the Final Report of the SIME/DIME: Report
a. Further results: dissolution of families:
This conclusion was unambiguously unfavorable to advocates of a negative income tax that would cover married couples, for two important reasons.
First, increased marital breakups among the poor would increase the numbers on
welfare and the amount of transfer payments, principally because the
separated wife and children would receive higher transfer payments.
Second, marital dissolutions and the usual accompanying absence of
fathers from households with children are generally considered unfavorable outcomes regardless of whether or not the welfare rolls increase. http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/conf/conf30/conf30c.pdf
b. When families received guaranteed income at 90% of the poverty level, there was a 43% increase in black family dissolution and a 63% increase in white family dissolution. At 125% of the poverty levels, dissolutions were 75% and 40%.
Robert B. Carleson, Government Is The Problem, p. 57.
Along comes a CBO report that predicts 2.3 million will leave the job market because ObamaCare will provide the healthcare sans job or work effort.
"Health-care law will prompt over 2 million to quit jobs or cut hours, a CBO report says'
Health-care law will prompt over 2 million to quit jobs or cut hours, a CBO report says - The Washington Post
And, just as Prager revealed.....the Obama Liberal/Progressives cheered at the prospect of more Americans reaching out for free stuff.....taught to live off of other Americans:
"The White House scrambled to defend the law, which has bedeviled Obama since its 2010 passage, arguing that the report shows it will work as planned, freeing people to care for their children, retire early or start their own businesses without worrying about health coverage."
Ibid.
And
"But Republicans hailed the report as fresh evidence that the law will decimate the American workforce, encouraging people to forgo private employment in favor of taxpayer handouts."
Ibid.
Proof, again, that the Left will not be satisfied until America is Western Europe, more concerned with vacations and entitlements than recognizing and fighting evil.
No Liberal/Progressive/DeathPanelDemocrat should ever......ever....be allowed in a seat of power.
In part:
4. The Liberal Welfare State causes people to distain work, efforts of various kinds. According to one listener, in Germany, if you own a store, and desire to stay open an extra hour....you cannot: it is unfair to your competitor. Harder work to get ahead? Out of the question.
7. The Welfare State corrupts family life. Study the effects on the inner city, where women learned to rely on the government as their husband.
The government conducted a study, 1971-1978 known as the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment, or SIME-DIME, in which low income families were give a guaranteed income, a welfare package with everything liberal policy makers could hope for. Result: for every dollar of extra welfare given, low income recipients reduced their labor by 80 cents.
http://www.policyarchive.org/handle/...eams/12794.pdf
[The results for husbands show that the combination of negative income tax plans tested in SIME/DIME which, as already mentioned, represents on average a relatively generous cash transfer program with a guarantee of 115% of the poverty line and a tax rate of 50% has a significant negative effect on hours worked per year. ]Overview of the Final Report of the SIME/DIME: Report
a. Further results: dissolution of families:
This conclusion was unambiguously unfavorable to advocates of a negative income tax that would cover married couples, for two important reasons.
First, increased marital breakups among the poor would increase the numbers on
welfare and the amount of transfer payments, principally because the
separated wife and children would receive higher transfer payments.
Second, marital dissolutions and the usual accompanying absence of
fathers from households with children are generally considered unfavorable outcomes regardless of whether or not the welfare rolls increase. http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/conf/conf30/conf30c.pdf
b. When families received guaranteed income at 90% of the poverty level, there was a 43% increase in black family dissolution and a 63% increase in white family dissolution. At 125% of the poverty levels, dissolutions were 75% and 40%.
Robert B. Carleson, Government Is The Problem, p. 57.
Along comes a CBO report that predicts 2.3 million will leave the job market because ObamaCare will provide the healthcare sans job or work effort.
"Health-care law will prompt over 2 million to quit jobs or cut hours, a CBO report says'
Health-care law will prompt over 2 million to quit jobs or cut hours, a CBO report says - The Washington Post
And, just as Prager revealed.....the Obama Liberal/Progressives cheered at the prospect of more Americans reaching out for free stuff.....taught to live off of other Americans:
"The White House scrambled to defend the law, which has bedeviled Obama since its 2010 passage, arguing that the report shows it will work as planned, freeing people to care for their children, retire early or start their own businesses without worrying about health coverage."
Ibid.
And
"But Republicans hailed the report as fresh evidence that the law will decimate the American workforce, encouraging people to forgo private employment in favor of taxpayer handouts."
Ibid.
Proof, again, that the Left will not be satisfied until America is Western Europe, more concerned with vacations and entitlements than recognizing and fighting evil.
No Liberal/Progressive/DeathPanelDemocrat should ever......ever....be allowed in a seat of power.
