{"id":133073,"date":"2017-03-16T22:40:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T04:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/16\/cutting-meals-on-wheels-is-compassionate-to-taxpayers.html"},"modified":"2017-03-16T22:40:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T04:40:50","slug":"cutting-meals-on-wheels-is-compassionate-to-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/16\/cutting-meals-on-wheels-is-compassionate-to-taxpayers.html","title":{"rendered":"Cutting "Meals on Wheels" is compassionate … to taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, really, that's the argument the Trump Administration is using to support proposed massive cuts in federal funding to programs like "Meals on Wheels" and Head Start. Because clearly we've spent way too much time focusing on the people who need and benefit from these programs, and way too little time on the people who have to fork over their hard-earned dividends<\/del> money to pay for them.<\/p>\n

'“Just to follow-up on that, you were talking about the steel worker in Ohio, coal worker in Pennsylvania, but they may have an elderly mother who depends on the Meals on Wheels program or who may have kids in Head Start,” Acosta said. “Yesterday, or the day before, you described this as a hard-power budget. Is it also a hard-hearted budget?”<\/i><\/p>\n

“No, I don’t think so,” Mulvaney replied. “I think it’s probably one of the most compassionate things we can do.”<\/i><\/p>\n

“To cut programs that help the elderly and kids?” Acosta asked, incredulously.<\/i><\/p>\n

“You’re only focusing on half of the equation, right? You’re focusing on the recipients of the money. We’re trying to focus on both the recipients of the money and the folks who give us the money in the first place,” Mulvaney explained. “And I think it’s fairly compassionate to go to them and say, ‘Look, we’re not gonna ask you for your hard-earned money, anymore, single mother of two in Detroit … unless we can guarantee to you that that money is actually being used in a proper function.’”'<\/i><\/p>\n

This ignores that the "single mother of two in Detroit" is probably not paying nearly as much in federal taxes as she's benefiting from those programs (e.g., Head Start).<\/p>\n

It also ignores that this budget doesn't actually reduce taxes on that "single mother of two in Detroit" — that comes in a tax cut bill later on, in theory. And one guess as to how much such a bill will benefit the "single mother of two in Detroid" and how much it will benefit the "billionaire real estate mogul in New York".<\/p>\n

And in the compassion category of "What Would Jesus Do?", it's worth noting that while Jesus was sensitive to how much people gave to support the poor, the sick, the elderly, it wasn't that they were being asked to give, but that they gave in proportion to what they had, and gave until it hurt.[1]<\/p>\n

That's just a small portion of the article as a whole, which is worth a read.<\/p>\n

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[1] https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+21%3A1-4&version=NKJV<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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