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| Topic | HUD Secretary Ben Carson to propose tripling rent for low-income people |
| legendary_zell 04/27/18 9:43:39 PM #52: | FLUFFYGERM posted... legendary_zell posted...Tens of millions. Most poor people in my state for instance (Texas). They are having children for the exact reasons he listed, and because poor people generally have more children worldwide, and because people have children even in terrible situations because we are humans. It's not about "stupid decisions", it's about bad systems, at least not primarily. And again, you are so focused on moralizing, scolding, chastising, stigmatizing, these people that you continue to ignore three basic facts. 1) The children are alive already and have needs and will have to participate in society in the future 2) Not helping them is just crapping on them to hurt their parents and is cruel considering the structural factors that lead to their situations 3) Not helping them is just punching yourself in the face on a societal level So you're just gonna ignore everything else I said that refutes your arguments? While also ignoring my argument that none of this should be happening in the first place because it is completely unnecessary? There's lots of people living on SSI who only get 800-1000 a month total that they have to use to pay for all of their expenses. And that's for a household. A tripling of rent for those people is a calamity. And I'll continue to call you out for focusing on the children. It's an easy tactic to trigger our moral judgment and dogwhistle but it's not ultimately a rational reason to reduce housing subsidies even if every single on of those children shouldn't have been born. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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