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Title: Half of US social program recipients believe they “have not used a government social program” (50% of Americans are retards)
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URL Source: http://boingboing.net/2011/07/08/half-of-us-social-pr.html
Published: Jul 8, 2011
Author: Cory Doctorow
Post Date: 2011-08-02 00:15:45 by Godwinson
Keywords: None
Views: 9541
Comments: 21
Half of US social program recipients believe they “have not used a government social program” Posted by Cory Doctorow on Friday, Jul 8th at 10:48am “Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era,” a paper by Cornell’s Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions Suzanne Mettler features this remarkable chart showing that about half of American social program beneficiaries believe that they “have not used a government social program.” It’s the “Keep your government hands off my Medicare” phenomena writ large: a society of people who subsist on mutual aid and redistributive policies who’ve been conned (and conned themselves) into thinking that they are rugged individualists and that everyone else is a parasite.
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#9. To: Godwinson (#0)
How is the home mortgage interest tax deduction supposed to be a social program?
Case in point, add no gnu taxes to the American retard list.
Case in point, add no gnu taxes to the American retard list. Instead, I'll add you and the author of this list. Keeping a portion of my own taxes is NOT a social program.
You don't pay taxes on interest you simpleton. It's a social program kick back. The intent of the MID was to increase homeownership by reducing income tax liability. This was the reasoning back in 1913 - when the Progressives started the program. Addressing the National Association of Realtors in 1984, President Reagan said, "I want you to know that we will preserve the part of the American dream which the home-mortgage-interest deduction symbolizes."
It's a tax deduction. It's part of my own money I get to keep. The government isn't giving me ANYTHING.
#16. To: no gnu taxes (#15)
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LOL! It is a social program because the govt is inducing a behavior - making it more financially attractive to buy a home than say buy a yacht or jewelry.
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#10. To: no gnu taxes (#9)
How is the home mortgage interest tax deduction supposed to be a social program?
#13. To: Godwinson (#10)
How is the home mortgage interest tax deduction supposed to be a social program?
#14. To: no gnu taxes (#13)
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Keeping a portion of my own taxes is NOT a social program.
#15. To: Godwinson (#14)
You don't pay taxes on interest you simpleton.
Replies to Comment # 15. It's a tax deduction. It's part of my own money I get to keep. The government isn't giving me ANYTHING.
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