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A Man's Home Is His Subsidy

OldMexicanblog Wrote: Jan 09, 2013 11:29 AM

-- Some are truly needy, but many recipients of income transfers are far from poor. -- I would argue that if some people truly needed a place to live, you would have shelters and other places that can cater to them while letting others find pleasure in going to work to pay for an apartment or a house or a shack or whatever.

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A Man's Home Is His Subsidy

The Obama administration now proposes to spend millions more on handouts, despite ample evidence of their perverse effects.

Shaun Donovan, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, says, "The single most important thing HUD does is provide rental assistance to America's most vulnerable families -- and the Obama administration is proposing bold steps to meet their needs." They always propose "bold steps."

In this case, HUD wants to spend millions more to renew Section 8 housing vouchers that help poor people pay rent.

The Section 8 program ballooned during the '90s to "solve" a previous government failure: crime-ridden public...

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