Ending Poverty In America

[sealybobo]

We all benefit from poverty.

If we just collected the taxes we are owed, it would add up to over 1 trillion dollars a year.

If we just collected the taxes the top 1 owe, not raise their taxes, it would add up to $175 billion a year.

It would only cost $177 billion a year to take everyone below the poverty line and bring them above it.

Less than 1% of our GDP to end poverty.

Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap​

 

[Harry Dresden]

We all benefit from poverty.

If we just collected the taxes we are owed, it would add up to over 1 trillion dollars a year.

If we just collected the taxes the top 1 owe, not raise their taxes, it would add up to $175 billion a year.

It would only cost $177 billion a year to take everyone below the poverty line and bring them above it.

Less than 1% of our GDP to end poverty.

Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap​

so who is matt desmond and why should one believe what he says?..

 

[Meister]

We all benefit from poverty.

If we just collected the taxes we are owed, it would add up to over 1 trillion dollars a year.

If we just collected the taxes the top 1 owe, not raise their taxes, it would add up to $175 billion a year.

It would only cost $177 billion a year to take everyone below the poverty line and bring them above it.

Less than 1% of our GDP to end poverty.

Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap​

Coming from a far left liberal professor from an Ivy League school?
Dime a dozen drugstore professor telling everyone how simple it is to beat poverty.
Two things this liberal socialist/communist doesn't take into consideration is that everybody
is taxed enough, and he doesn't take into consideration the SPENDING problem this country has.
He needs to just sit down, shut up, and watch what DOGE do it's job.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

We all benefit from poverty.

If we just collected the taxes we are owed, it would add up to over 1 trillion dollars a year.

If we just collected the taxes the top 1 owe, not raise their taxes, it would add up to $175 billion a year.

It would only cost $177 billion a year to take everyone below the poverty line and bring them above it.

Less than 1% of our GDP to end poverty.

Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap​

If we didn't spend money transgendering puppies in Malaysia, or on the Ukraine Money Laundering Operation or $12B for submarines with 0 submarines to show for it or letting Pharma keep us sick and on pills or releases the energy saving patents including ZPE, then yeah, no poverty on Earth -- at all

 

[Darkwind]

We all benefit from poverty.

If we just collected the taxes we are owed, it would add up to over 1 trillion dollars a year.

If we just collected the taxes the top 1 owe, not raise their taxes, it would add up to $175 billion a year.

It would only cost $177 billion a year to take everyone below the poverty line and bring them above it.

Less than 1% of our GDP to end poverty.

Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap​

This presupposes that no one is paying the taxes they owe.

The statement, "If we just collect..." implies we are not collecting it.

I won't even start on the concept of "owed" as that would be a conversation that requires a maturity of mind to prioritize the concept without enslaving the subject.

 

[1srelluc]

Poverty

Not Poverty:

Fattys on parade at the welfare office.

 

[marvin martian]

We all benefit from poverty.

If we just collected the taxes we are owed, it would add up to over 1 trillion dollars a year.

If we just collected the taxes the top 1 owe, not raise their taxes, it would add up to $175 billion a year.

It would only cost $177 billion a year to take everyone below the poverty line and bring them above it.

Less than 1% of our GDP to end poverty.

Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap​

The entire purpose of the DemoKKKrat party in America is to create poor people.

Your party's results speak for themselves.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Poverty is relative. It cannot be ended. The poverty line can only be moved. In San Francisco the poverty line is $104,000 in annual income. Across the bridge in Marin, it's $149,000 in income that would qualify a family of four for state and federal low income assistance. Cut taxes and these low income victims of poverty would be accused of not paying a fair share.

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/under-100k-low-income-san-francisco-18168899.php

 

[JGalt]

We all benefit from poverty.

If we just collected the taxes we are owed, it would add up to over 1 trillion dollars a year.

If we just collected the taxes the top 1 owe, not raise their taxes, it would add up to $175 billion a year.

It would only cost $177 billion a year to take everyone below the poverty line and bring them above it.

Less than 1% of our GDP to end poverty.

Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap​

How's about those "impoverished" just get off their lazy government tit-sucking asses and go get a job? Didn't we just come out of the greatest administration with the lowest unemployment numbers ever?

 

[initforme]

50 thousand per year, anywhere in america, is poverty level wages.

 

[MarathonMike]

We all benefit from poverty.

If we just collected the taxes we are owed, it would add up to over 1 trillion dollars a year.

If we just collected the taxes the top 1 owe, not raise their taxes, it would add up to $175 billion a year.

It would only cost $177 billion a year to take everyone below the poverty line and bring them above it.

Less than 1% of our GDP to end poverty.

Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap​

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High-Income Taxpayers Paid the Majority of Federal Income Taxes. In 2022, the bottom half of taxpayers earned 11.5 percent of total AGI and paid 3 percent of all federal individual income taxes. The top 1 percent earned 22.4 percent of total AGI and paid 40.4 percent of all federal income taxes.
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[Maxdeath]

You really have to love stupid. We have had welfare, snap and other give always for years. We still have poverty and always will. You could give everyone 50 thousand a year and there will be those that run out and spend it on drugs, booze gambling. There are those that will buy a new car, a new television, a new phone then turn around and wonder how they are going to eat.
Some people will continue to live in tents because they have mental problems and do not want the responsibility of owning things.
All in all it is impossible no matter how much money you throw at a problem bad decisions make it impossible to fix.

 

[hadit]

We all benefit from poverty.

If we just collected the taxes we are owed, it would add up to over 1 trillion dollars a year.

Interesting, are you claiming to have insider information from the IRS that we are not collecting the "taxes we are owed"?

If we just collected the taxes the top 1 owe, not raise their taxes, it would add up to $175 billion a year.

Again, are you claiming to have insider information from the IRS that we are not collecting the "taxes we are owed"? Are you saying that all those liberal billionaires weeping that they are not charged enough taxes are not paying what they owe?

It would only cost $177 billion a year to take everyone below the poverty line and bring them above it.

Less than 1% of our GDP to end poverty.

Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap​

You fail to realize that would simply move the poverty line higher, leaving the same number in poverty that were there before.

If you want a true picture of poverty in America, you have to compare our poorest with those from around the world, and suddenly they don't seem to be in such poverty anymore.

Does being poor In America mean you starve? Not often.
Does being poor In America mean you freeze in the winter? Not often.
Does being poor In America mean you get sick and die in the street? Not often.

These are true in countries around the world where poverty really means poverty.

The reality is, if you lift everyone currently below the poverty line above it, you haven't eliminated poverty, you've only changed the criteria for what it means to be poor.

 

[sealybobo]

so who is matt desmond and why should one believe what he says?..

Matthew Desmond is a sociologist and the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he is also the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab.

Desmond was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.

He was formerly the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.

 

[sealybobo]

Coming from a far left liberal professor from an Ivy League school?
Dime a dozen drugstore professor telling everyone how simple it is to beat poverty.
Two things this liberal socialist/communist doesn't take into consideration is that everybody
is taxed enough, and he doesn't take into consideration the SPENDING problem this country has.
He needs to just sit down, shut up, and watch what DOGE do it's job.

No, the rich aren't being taxed enough. Or they aren't paying what they owe. If they did or were, we could bring everyone above poverty.

But we rely on poverty. Capitalism seems to depend on it. So do I. I want my McDonald sandwich to be cheap and I want my landscapers to be cheap. So really, I should shut my mouth.

 

[sealybobo]

If we didn't spend money transgendering puppies in Malaysia, or on the Ukraine Money Laundering Operation or $12B for submarines with 0 submarines to show for it or letting Pharma keep us sick and on pills or releases the energy saving patents including ZPE, then yeah, no poverty on Earth -- at all

Hey look a conspiracy theorists who spreads fake news that's been debunked.

 

[Meister]

No, the rich aren't being taxed enough. Or they aren't paying what they owe. If they did or were, we could bring everyone above poverty.

But we rely on poverty. Capitalism seems to depend on it. So do I. I want my McDonald sandwich to be cheap and I want my landscapers to be cheap. So really, I should shut my mouth.

Yeah, you really should shut your mouth.

 

[sealybobo]

This presupposes that no one is paying the taxes they owe.

The statement, "If we just collect..." implies we are not collecting it.

I won't even start on the concept of "owed" as that would be a conversation that requires a maturity of mind to prioritize the concept without enslaving the subject.

No one is paying the taxes they owe? No this doesn't presuppose this. It's a fact the rich aren't paying their fair share. And guys like Trump have defunded the IRS so they are unable to go after rich tax cheats.

All they can go after is someone like you who doesn't claim one of your $5000 investments where you didn't claim the $200 interest you made on it last year.

 

[sealybobo]

Poverty

Not Poverty:

Fattys on parade at the welfare office.

All I know is when they were getting bonus unemployment $ during covid and the amount of foodstamps they get went up for a minute, and we weren't evicting people, suddenly the poverty problem was solved. And it cost 1% of what we spend every year. So if we did it right, if we did it better, and the rich paid what they owe, we could solve poverty.

I don't have a problem with minimum wage people getting free healthcare and foodstamps that suppliment their shitty pay.

And solve their rent problem while we are at it.

It's laughable to say the rich pay all the taxes. If you take what we make and add up all the taxes we pay, we pay a much higher percentage of what we make on taxes. The rich don't even come close.

It may be property taxes, sales tax, excise tax, capital gains, etc.

Other Purchase Taxes. User fees are taxes that are assessed on a wide variety of services, including airline tickets, rental cars, toll roads, utilities ...

 

[martybegan]

Matthew Desmond is a sociologist and the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he is also the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab.

Desmond was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.

He was formerly the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.

So someone who has actually never had a real job in their life. got it.