AZ shuts down welfare benefits after 12 months......

[King]

Might as well just scrap it all completely at this point, such a worthless benefits system isn't the administrative costs for AZ.

[King]

What do you propose someone do if they find themselves spending more than twelve months over the course of their life in a minimum wage job that doesn't allow them to afford food or housing or healthcare?

I don't know what the cost of living in Arizona is, but here in South Carolina, while it would be rather spartan, it is possible for a single person to obtain adequate food, housing, and healthcare on a full-time minimum wage job.

The problem is that you would be in South Carolina.

Yes, how dare they have low taxes but also a balanced budget?!

That has nothing to do with cost of living.

[King]

I live in a state and city with an even lower cost of living than South Carolina and our minimum wage is $9/hr and we have Medicaid expansion and a higher income tax rate than any of our neighboring states. Our per capita state spending is $3,000 more than SC and yet we have the same credit rating of AA+ by S&P.

South Carolina also has an unemployment rate 0.6% higher and their in-state college tuition is twice as high.

And we're governed by Republicans.