Why is TANF so controversial while the Child Tax Credit is not? (user search)
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Benj
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« on: December 31, 2012, 08:15:54 PM »
« edited: December 31, 2012, 08:17:33 PM by Benj »
Quote from: True Federalist on December 31, 2012, 05:56:02 PM
The middle class gets the CTC while the poor gets TANF.  What is so hard to understand about why TANF is controversial?  After all when it comes to government spending, the word wasteful means, "I don't get any of it myself."

This. If it goes to other people, it's wasteful. That plus the fetishization of the middle class in American politics means that middle class handouts (including Social Security, which hardly does anything for the poor at all) are wildly popular but other programs are not.
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