Posted by wylie715 on 2/20/2019 7:06:00 PM (view original):
Posted by gomiami1972 on 2/20/2019 6:21:00 PM (view original):
I wonder if any of you actually grew up below poverty-level poor or have you guys been middle class your entire lives and are just intellectually debating in a vacuum?
If you all have never experienced destitution, you should be careful about trying to weigh how much 2% would or would not impact or whether or not poverty is an avoidable situation.
When you have lived through it for a period of your life, it changes your perspective.
um, that is what I have been saying all along. Not being poor and never having been poor, I have no idea how hard or easy it is to work your way out of poverty.
It is incredibly difficult to break the cycle because it is both a physical thing (money/physical environment) as well as mental (educational ignorance/psychological environment.) Believe me, it is not necessarily a choice. Nobody was wearing hundred dollar sneakers or owning fancy toys (the equivalent of smart phones or x-boxes) where I grew up. Poverty is crushing. Most of the people I grew up with are either dead or incarcerated. I got extremely lucky and escaped, although I was the only one in my family to do so.
2% taxes only mean something to those who have some money and can probably afford it to varying degrees. When you have nothing, 2% isn't even a percentage. Conceptually, it means nothing. You can't take away from someone who literally has nothing to give in the first place.
2/20/2019 7:32 PM (edited)