{"id":6690,"date":"2009-11-04T20:05:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T02:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/wordpress\/?p=6690"},"modified":"2016-11-04T07:26:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T14:26:20","slug":"robbery-and-the-welfare-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/robbery-and-the-welfare-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbery And The Welfare State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fff.org\/?s=Robbery+and+the+Welfare+State\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/Welfare.png\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/>FFF.org<\/a> | First, welfare recipients are strongly deterred from working by the high implicit tax rates they face on income they earn. Browning walks us through a typical case, a single mother with children who lives in Pennsylvania. She is eligible for welfare benefits under various programs that amount to $19,217. What if the woman finds a job and earns some money? Suppose she lands a part-time job and earns $5,000 during the year. Is she $5,000 better off? No \u2014 after factoring in the reductions in her benefits due to her earnings, she ends up with disposable income of $18,253. The part-time job actually makes her worse off. Browning proceeds to show that she would need to get a job paying $30,000 per year before she would end up financially better off than not working and living entirely at the expense of taxpayers. Even at that, her gain is less than $700 for all the trouble of working.<\/p>\n<p>It is no wonder that there has been little improvement in the living standards of the poor. They\u2019re essentially trapped in a barely tolerable existence of government handouts. <a href=\"http:\/\/fff.org\/?s=Robbery+and+the+Welfare+State\">Read Entire Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By George Leef<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FFF.org | First, welfare recipients are strongly deterred from working by the high implicit tax rates they face on income they earn. Browning walks us through a typical case, a single mother with children who lives in Pennsylvania. She is eligible for welfare benefits under various programs that amount to $19,217. What if the woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[154,11,153],"class_list":["post-6690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-social-security","tag-tax","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}