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发帖数: 5309 | 1 和民主党龙虾的区别是，民主党承认自己接受福利而且感到内疚。狗屁党把福利视为理
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One reason we might love this myth as much as we do: It allows us to avoid
hard discussions about the reality of class in the United States. All too
many Americans, the beneficiaries of what I like to call the upper-middle-
class welfare state, can convince themselves that they are uniquely
deserving. When Jessica Wiederspan, now a researcher studying basic income
with Y Combinator, interviewed working- and middle-class families in Rust
Belt states, she found many in absolute denial about what their financial
backers accomplished for them. One woman, the recipient of family aid that
permitted her everything from a nice home (with a mortgage in her mother-in-
law’s name) to soccer lessons and summer camp for her children, told the
researcher she believed the vast majority of people who did well in the
United States, “are people who are willing to work for what they want.” As
for the others, she sniffed, “they expect handouts to get from here to
here.”
In fact, as both Wiederspan’s research and the Times story shows, it is
frequently the rich and well-to-d0 who seek handouts without copping to it.
It is the Trump administration that signed into law a tax-reform package
that gave the typical worker a tiny and time-limited tax cut, while
showering the wealthiest with a massive and permanent cut. It is the Trump
administration that is seeking to make staggering cuts in social safety-net
programs, such as Medicaid and food stamps, which is the only help available
for people who hit a rough patch or are mired in poverty. At the same time,
it is the Trump family — and no doubt many other families — who seek to
skip out on paying taxes, money that can be used to help those who lack
their financial advantages. That too many Americans tacitly accept this
reality allows frauds such as Trump to flourish. |
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