[LINK] How rational is the US federal state

Thomas

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/over-60000-welfare-spentper-household-poverty_657889.html

60000 dollars per year per poor family, if the article is correct.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/over-60000-welfare-spentper-household-poverty_657889.html

60000 dollars per year per poor family, if the article is correct.

My point was that it isn't charity.

Has no charity ever used the institution argument/strategy in its investments?

I'm not trying to draw the line between institution building and charity. I'm only saying that US government (federal and state) discretionary spending(1) per person below the poverty line is a funky and worthless statistic.

Taking it seriously seems to imply that the value of institutions is realized only by those below the poverty line, with no benefit to the middle class or the wealth. And the statistic obfuscates the fact that the direct purpose of many of the programs is not poverty alleviation or reduction. We may hope for indirect benefits - the r... (read more)

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