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Originally Posted by Riverman
Allowing the poor to keep more of their income would help them more than anything else.
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Low income people pay less than 10% income tax, and most of the things they buy (or at least, need) are not taxed. In Ontario, low income people receive a tax rebate that exceeds what they pay in sales taxes and get most of their income taxes back in the spring. I only paid $22 in tax on my last paycheque for the equivalent of 50 hours of minimum wage. The Manitoba equivalent wouldn't be more than $25 in taxes. It's not much of a saving but it would help.
I know a lot of people who found jobs with the assistance of government funded programmes.
There are two main reasons government funded programmes "don't work" (even though they do)
1: They are not advertised well enough, and are voluntary, so many people do not hear about them. Some require referrals from social workers who themselves might be unaware of them, so many people don't know what it out there to help them
2: Programs get cut, re-named or re-organized too frequently, resulting in confusing, people dropping out, staff being laid off, or people in the course losing their eligibility because of criteria changes and being put into other, less effective programmes (if programmes for them exist anymore). Ask anyone who has gone through a government funded employment programme, the biggest topic other than job skills is "It's a good thing you're in the course now because next week we're shutting down". The guy who helped me find my job was also looking for a job because the government cut funding to the programme that was employing him! It's a farce.
You get a sense that the government doesn't really want people to succeed, and that sentiments like "we should just let poor people do everything themselves" is just a way for the government to say "it's not our fault" and wash their hands of the whole situation.
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