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£2.7 billion is spent on the ‘carer’s allowance’, equivalent to the princely sum of £67.50 per week.
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
Student loans: the costs of the debt jubilee should be borne by universities, not taxpayers.
Nassim Nicholas Talebx.com
Truly astonishing indictment of our welfare policies fr @AtlantaFed.
A single mother in DC can make no gains, financially, as her earnings rise from $11,000 to $65,000
because benefits like food stamps & Medicaid phase in/out as her income rises.
Terrible fo... See more
To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:
- Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible.
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Elon Muskx.comzoom call from a ceo who cancelled all employee bonuses but took a $6.4 million bonus herself https://t.co/SMZP6QQYCX
Warren Commission Test Skullx.comVivek Ramaswamy's thought experiment for reducing the size of government on @lexfridman:
"Day 1, anybody in the federal bureaucracy who's not elected, whose Social Security number ends in an odd number, you're out. [Day 2], of those who remain, if your Social Security starts in an even number, you're in, and if it start... See more
Pirate Wiresx.comIn 2001, 179,171 payments totaling $425 million were issued to “claimant representatives,” attorneys mostly, who represented people applying for disability and other benefits. By 2019, 390,809 payments—totaling $1.2 billion—were issued.[19]
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
The purpose of the welfare state is to shackle the conscientious and productive to the workless, giving them the immense pleasure of working to pay for other people to have families they themselves struggle to afford https://t.co/vYyKB2fNxj
The 1992 Democratic Party Platform is based.
"Governments don't raise children, people do. People who bring children into this world have a responsibility to care for them and give them values, motivation and discipline.
Children should not have children. We need a national crackdown on dea... See more
Palmer Luckeyx.com