Not really. The middle class or Wealthy are less likely to change addresses frequently. They also have enough flexibility to go down to the DMV or whatever and stand in line and wait.
Why would the poor change their address frequently? It's harder on working people than non-working to take care of these problems. Since I've been out of work, attending to these chores is much easier. I don't have to go grocery shopping after work in rush hour, I pickup my mother and we hit the store 10:30am and it's almost completely empty. Checkout in a matter of a few minutes. If I need to make a cash deposit and go in person, I go around 1:00 pm and nobody in the bank but me and perhaps some old lady. It's great.
No, guy, we have out of control inflation because demand for all commodities have gone through the roof world wide. Has nothing to do with the pittance we are spending on infrastructure which is long overdue.
The problem is we have no infrastructure bill. The commies refuse to create one without tons of Democrat pork the Republicans would never pass; things that have zero to do with any infrastructure. Would you like me to list a few of them?
Inflation is the result of a decreasing dollar value and increase of costs to produce products or services. When you print more worthless dollars, it takes more dollars to buy the same product, alas inflation.
Actually, it's a pretty good idea. There was a time when you could do okay on a minimum wage. Back in the 1980's, I could pay for college working 10 hours a week on Minimum wage.
Today's minimum wage, same university, I could work 40 hours a week and not afford tuition.
Who do you think you're talking to? I was there. I'm a year older than you. My ultimate goal as a kid was to move out of home and get my own apartment. Impossible to do on minimum wage. It wasn't until I got into the medical thing where I started making reasonable money. I finally got my apartment and it wasn't much of an apartment at that. The only reason I could afford it making better money is all the overtime. We worked 6 days a week every week. I lived check to check for years after that, driving an old car that barely ran.
The problem with college is college, not minimum wage. In the last 25 years, college has increased in cost more than anything else in the US because of supply and demand.
Bottom line is back then, nobody could afford a decent rent, certainly nobody could afford to buy a house, and nobody could raise a family on minimum wage and it's the exact same way today. College costs are because of college--not normal inflation.
The problem is, how many people are workign for slightly above minimum and STILL not making ends meet? Frankly, I'm getting a little tired of subsidizing Walmart's work force, aren't you?
Yes I am, that's why I vote Republican. Again, when I needed money as a kid, I didn't go on government programs, I worked more hours or had two jobs. Government didn't give out that much even if your application was accepted. It was a waste of time, so people made ends meet one way or another.
Thanks to Democrats, they took away the incentive to work. It's why we have a labor shortage with a 5% unemployment rate. It has nothing to do with minimum wage or slightly above. if you want to make more money, get into a skill or trade that pays better.
Pointless. Just because the government plays a shell game with taxes doesn't mean that poor people aren't still paying them.
They are not paying taxes towards the programs they use and will continue to use in the future.
Um, yeah, not on minimum wage, they don't... that's the point. I doubt you've ever gone to bed hungry once in your life.
Correct I have not because I always worked to buy food.
Naw, man, the problem is, Republicans **** things up. We know the cycle Republican ***** things up (Hoover, Ike, Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Trump) , Democrat comes in and fixes it, (FDR, LBJ, Clinton, Obama, Biden). There's a reason why ten of the last 11 recessions happened when Republicans were in charge. It's not a bug, it's a design feature. Republicans love recessions, it lets the rich beat up on the poor.
Oh really? Look at our country since Dementia took over. Out of control inflation, Afghanistan a complete failure with dead service men and women, fuel up over 30%, unemployment in the 5% range, labor shortage, border the worst it's been in over 20 years, and you call this fixing things up? They are getting healthcare workers fired; people they called "heroes" just last year. Now they want to expand the federal government to watch every dollar you deposit or withdraw from the bank. That's what they're focused on and you consider this fixing things up?
Okay. You could say the same about welfare programs. You pay taxes, and they are there. The reality- most people on welfare are only on it for a couple of years. As opposed to retirees, if they live that long retire at 62 and stay on SS/Medicare until they die at 78.
I mean, if you keel over at 61, you are SOL. But most of us don't.
So what you're saying is that government social programs are a failure. Keep that in mind when the commies propose new ones. If you don't pay your electric bill but pay your gas bill, do you think the electric company will be satisfied that you paid your gas bill? One has nothng to do with the other and taxes work the same way. Welfare is funded strictly through income taxes. Payroll taxes you get current services from city and state, and federal benefits when you reitre. Over half our country pays no income tax at all.