The United States government has, in recent years, become more and more infatuated with the idea of welfare. Citizens for the most part seem to be equally as in love with the idea as well because they think that it will solve the growing US poverty problem. However, studies have shown that not only does welfare hurt impoverished communities, it encourages poverty and government dependency. There are many social, economic, and political factors that play into this phenomena and it is hard to pinpoint one primary cause to the source of this issue because all facets in some fashion play a role. However it isn’t a false accusation to say that the government has increasingly inflamed the problem at hand. The problem initially roots itself in
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Wax, rich, married, white people tend to be better off than divorced, poor black people. Poor African Americans are more likely to divorce, be single mothers, and have children out of marriage then white people. What if there was no welfare plan in place? Most people would think that the impoverished would stay that way because there would be no means or resources for someone like a single mother to climb out of her financial hole. However data presented by Tyler Durden may show the opposite. At the income of $3,625 a year a family would receive many government benefits such as $6,312 in food stamps as well as other benefits totaling out to a $31,630 economic benefit. However a person with a $60,000 income receives no benefits and has a $34,366 income. This brings up questions as follows: Why would a low income family want to quit receiving benefits if they are essentially paid to do nothing, or why would anyone want to get out of a seemingly beneficial situation? A person that makes $3,265 a year plus benefits makes nearly as much as someone who makes $60,000. There is no incentive for the person making $3,265 to get married because it would decrease their benefits. It also encourages the person to …show more content…
It isn’t a bad thing wanting to help poor people, it is an admirable thing! The issue comes into play when the government takes control of helping others, like so many other things the government takes over the system becomes corrupted. The big question is: What can we do to reverse this problem? That in itself is a hard question to answer because as I described earlier there are many fascists to the issue and to remedy all three would take a huge amount of effort. Perhaps the solution lies in creating disincentives in the program instead on incentives. In the current program poverty is encouraged. In addition to receiving welfare people in the program should have to have some form of work in order to receive benefits. This would hopefully create less demand for welfare because either way one would have to work. We should stop babying people and making it okay for people to go on welfare because that mind set isn’t helping anyone. Lots of people probably won’t like this change if it were to be made so that’s why it probably will never happen. It is however something that needs to be
Wax, rich, married, white people tend to be better off than divorced, poor black people. Poor African Americans are more likely to divorce, be single mothers, and have children out of marriage then white people. What if there was no welfare plan in place? Most people would think that the impoverished would stay that way because there would be no means or resources for someone like a single mother to climb out of her financial hole. However data presented by Tyler Durden may show the opposite. At the income of $3,625 a year a family would receive many government benefits such as $6,312 in food stamps as well as other benefits totaling out to a $31,630 economic benefit. However a person with a $60,000 income receives no benefits and has a $34,366 income. This brings up questions as follows: Why would a low income family want to quit receiving benefits if they are essentially paid to do nothing, or why would anyone want to get out of a seemingly beneficial situation? A person that makes $3,265 a year plus benefits makes nearly as much as someone who makes $60,000. There is no incentive for the person making $3,265 to get married because it would decrease their benefits. It also encourages the person to …show more content…
It isn’t a bad thing wanting to help poor people, it is an admirable thing! The issue comes into play when the government takes control of helping others, like so many other things the government takes over the system becomes corrupted. The big question is: What can we do to reverse this problem? That in itself is a hard question to answer because as I described earlier there are many fascists to the issue and to remedy all three would take a huge amount of effort. Perhaps the solution lies in creating disincentives in the program instead on incentives. In the current program poverty is encouraged. In addition to receiving welfare people in the program should have to have some form of work in order to receive benefits. This would hopefully create less demand for welfare because either way one would have to work. We should stop babying people and making it okay for people to go on welfare because that mind set isn’t helping anyone. Lots of people probably won’t like this change if it were to be made so that’s why it probably will never happen. It is however something that needs to be