At the next tuition increase these same students will be protesting and never make the connection.
Leonardo | Homepage | 04.18.06 - 12:49 pm | #

would you be willing to trade the earned income tax credit for living wages?
Jenny | 04.18.06 - 1:01 pm | #

it would better to expand the earned income tax credit than pass the living wage. A living wage, like minimum wages in general, destroys jobs. And it's usually the people at the bottom who lose their jobs. (It will be the 19-year-old janitor with no experience making $6 an hour who loses his job, so that the 35-year-old experienced janitor making $9.72 an hour can get a one dollar raise.)

living wage is the absolute worse way to help poor people. Expanding the earned income tax credit - or creating a negative income tax - would be better. Eliminating the capital gains tax to create more jobs and implementing vouchers to improve education would be the best. More jobs and better trained and more productive workers is the answer.
cicero | Homepage | 04.18.06 - 1:22 pm | #

I don't like the EITC as it turns the tax system into a welfare program. They ought to be separate. People who don't pay any taxes should not be getting tax "refunds."
Leonardo | Homepage | 04.18.06 - 4:22 pm | #

It is more efficient to give low-income people money through the tax system than it is to set up a welfare system that gives them food stamps, housing, etc. Only about 25 cents out of every dollar ear marked for welfare actually makes it into the hands of a poor person. Why not cut welfare by 75% and give thee money out through the tax system?
cicero | Homepage | 04.18.06 - 5:10 pm | #

I see your point, but as someone who wants to abolish the income tax entirely I resist any efforts to expand it and entrench it more.
Leonardo | Homepage | 04.21.06 - 12:20 pm | #

What kind of stuff is this.Aiant this so dumb.Maybe I should try this.
divida | Homepage | 05.13.08 - 10:36 pm | #