Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Why I Am Not a Christian Libertarian

Posted by IOZ at 1:58 PM | email »
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17 comments:

rob payne said...

I'm not anything as well.

5:03 PM
Anonymous said...

chancellor EIC is a sith lawrd? well mutherfucka!

5:48 PM
Jim Wetzel said...

Uh-oh, look out ... commies in the house!

7:54 PM
Freddie said...

IOZ's libertarian commenters keep getting their fee-fees hurt today.

8:22 PM
ergo said...

the EIC has control of the senate and the courts. it's too dangerous to be left alive.

10:26 PM
Your name hair said...

What are you, Ioz, and have you ever said anything positive about Cristin Sartwell?

1:26 AM
Alex said...

Strikethroughs don't work in Google Reader.

2:55 AM
Anonymous said...

I volunteer with a charitable organization that gives food, clothing, and financial aid to the needy.

It's not too busy in January, but about 6 months later it is crazy busy. WTH?

Well, if you want your Earned Income Tax Credit, you can't work too much out of the year, so about 6 months in to it you magically lose your job. It takes about 2 months for the government goodies to roll in,so you go hit up the charities for a bit until your "benefits" show up.

Incentives matter indeed!

4:56 AM
Jack Crow said...

Oh, no! Not the Conspiracy of the Poor to make $5600.

8:55 AM
Christopher M said...

I'm actually pretty fucking poor - like, consistently below the poverty level for the last eight years poor - and the meager scraps thrown my way in the form of the EITC have been welcome. I'd be happier if the entire fucking system were to be wiped out, so I didn't have to spend my life paying every fucking cent I have to the rich just so I can fucking exist, but as long as we're going to live under a corporatist police state, I wouldn't mind a few odd scraps tossed my way to make life mildly bearable. But hey, maybe I'm just a fat lazy welfare queen trying to squeeze money out of poor hardworking charitable motherfuckers like Nony here!

9:01 AM
Jack Crow said...

Christopher,

Anon didn't even do his math very well. To qualify for the largest possible EITC credit, a household has to have three kids and earn about $18k.

Anonymous Didn't Do His Math So Good

9:09 AM
Jack Crow said...

Of course, it would help if I could do a link well. Heh:

EITC

Gives an opportunity to point out that the maximum benefit for a single person without children, at a maximum income of $13,460, is a staggering, budget busting $457.

9:14 AM
George Jones said...

you know I hear farmers don't work as much a few months out of the year. Maybe we can get the Dems to pass some legislation about that winter bullshit.

A full-time job is the highest point of human attainment!

9:25 AM
Professor Coldheart said...

Fear will keep them in line. Fear of Social Security going bankrupt.

(Social Security = Death Star; Military-Industrial Complex = TIE Fighters and Stormtroopers; Jedi = ah, um, metaphor failing, STAY ON TARGET)

10:00 AM
Anonymous said...

Gov. Christie = Porkins?

9:26 PM
Anonymous said...

Cracks in the Washington Monument ... pinnacles off the National Cathedral ... work for masons, engineers, lunchtruck entrepenurs, et alia ...

... and yet you secular humanists will still turn a blind eye to the obvious fact that even God is telling you the answer is still infrastructure jobs ...

10:02 PM
TGGP said...

EITC was significantly inspired by Milton Friedman's argument for a negative income tax (Charles Murray advocated something similar in "In Our Hands"). They intended it as a comprehensive replacement rather than a supplement, but AFDC has been reduced so there was some of that. It's more often suggested as a substitute for the minimum wage though.

12:08 AM

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