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So what happens is the rich get all the money. Stop putting means testing garbage on these bills. It only means those who need the assistance on the edge will be denied.
They also pointed out the wealthy fret that their kids are growing up to be wastrels, fail sons and daughters. And they think poor kids are like that. When a poor kid that knuckles under and goes to college isn't like that.
Yes, they get free tuition from their parents which is why they don’t need government assistance for college. We don’t give food stamps to millionaires either.
There's no reason not to use that solution to every service, including ones currently means-tested, rather than having separate income and/or asset trsts with different standards and its own implementation bureaucracy for individual programs.
Well, there is a reason, but it is deliberate inefficiency and bureaucratic waste, either for corrupt purposes or to cause friction to frustrate the nominal purpose of the program while making the gesture of having the program.
The solution is simple: an income bases subsidy that gradually decreases with no welfare cliff.
On what planet are child-care workers the rich?
I’ll give you an example: there is no universe in which I personally ought to have had my student loans forgiven. My household income tipped into the seven figures during the pandemic. But some debt forgiveness advocates insisted on cancelling “all student debt, no exceptions.” Absolutely not!
The answer obviously depends on the specifics of the system in question.
You can help payoff someone else’s debt just as Uncle Sam paid for yours.
It evens out in the end
Well now you do....
/sarcasm
Yes, this happens automatically. Please. Means testing always translates to a mess. We need to radically simplify all this stuff. Flat benefits and simple taxing is a way.
It doesn't makes sense to look at benefits and taxes in isolation, only the net effect.