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Working ONE WEEK a month at minimum wage will benefit you better than working at a $60,000-a-year, full-time, high-stress job in the United States.
My chart tells the story. It is rather self-explanatory. -Source- and a counterpoint.
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Stunning? Just do it yourself.
Almost all welfare programs have Web sites where you can call up “benefits calculators.” Just plug-in your income and family size and, presto, your benefits are automatically calculated.
The chart is quite revealing. A single parent family of three making $14,500 a year (minimum wage) has MORE disposable income than a family making $60,000 a year.
And if that wasn’t enough, there’s more:
If the family provider works only one week a month at minimum wage, he or she makes 92 percent as much as a full-time provider grossing $60,000 a year.
Ever wonder why Obama was so focused on health reform? It’s because those who have no interest, or ability in working at a job (video), receive as much money as representatives of America’s once exalted middle class.
First of all, working one week a month, saves big-time on child care. But the real big-ticket item is Medicaid, which has minimal deductibles and copays. By working only one week a month at a minimum wage job, a provider is able to get total medical coverage for next to nothing.
Compare this to the family provider making $60,000 a year. A typical Mississippi family coverage would cost around $12,000, then adding deductibles and copays adds about an additional $4,500 to the bill. That’s a big hit.
There is a reason a full-time worker may not be excited to learn there is little to show for doing the “right thing.”
The full-time $60,000-a-year job is much more demanding than a person working one week a month at minimum wage. Presumably, the low-income parent will have more energy to attend to the various stresses of managing a household.
It gets even scarier, if one assumes a little dishonesty included in this equation.
If the one-week-a-month worker maintains an unreported cash-only job on the side, the deal gets better than a regular $60,000-a-year job. In this scenario, you keep a recordable payroll deductible, low-income job just for federal tax purposes. This allows you to easily prove your qualifications for all these welfare programs. Then your black-market job gives you extra cash without interfering with your benefits. Some economists estimate there is one trillion dollars in unreported income each year in the United States.
This really got me thinking. Just how much money could I get, if I set out to deliberately scam the system? I soon realized that getting a low-paying minimum wage job would set the stage for far more welfare benefits than you could earn in a real job, if you were willing to cheat. Even if you didn’t cheat, you could do almost as well working one week a month at minimum wage than busting a gut at a $60,000-a-year job.
If one throws in Supplemental Security Income (SSI), it becomes more interesting.
SSI pays $8,088 per year for each “disabled” family member. A person can be deemed “disabled” if they are totally lacking in the cultural and educational skills (3rd world immigrants?) needed to be employable in the workforce.
If you add $24,262 a year for three disability checks, the lowest paid welfare family would now have far more take-home income than the $60,000-a-year family.
Best of all: being on welfare does not judge you if you are stupid enough not to take drugs every day, to make some sense out of this Mephistophelian tragicomedy known as living in the USA:
Most private workplaces require drug testing, but no drug testing to obtaining welfare checks.
On America’s way to communistic welfare, it has long since surpassed such bastions of capitalism as China:
The welfare system in communist China is far more strict. Those people have to actually work to be able to eat.
We have been writing for over a year, how the very top of America’s social order steals from the middle class every day. Now we finally know that the very bottom of the entitlement food chain also makes out like a bandit, compared to the idiot American who actually works and pays their taxes. One can only also hope, that in addition to seeing their disposable income be eaten away by an entitlement state, that the disappearing middle class is also selling off its weaponry.
Because if they’re not, and finally decide they’ve had enough, the outcome won’t be surprising at all: the same old direction will occur as in almost every other revolution in world history to date. -Source-
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