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Man, the couple years I qualified for $175 a month in food stamps was great. I still had plenty of things to worry about, but eating wasn't one of them.
Then I got promoted at work with a .25 cent raise and lost the benefits, effectively making me poorer than I had been previously.
Still qualify for low income housing, though, which is nice.
The thing about welfare cliffs is that both sides acknowledge them and want to solve them, but either side will fight to the death to prevent the other side from implementing their solution.
what sides are u talking about the capitalist dont wanna solve shit they want to destroy the system entirely.
there are levels, and there is intent, even if the end result seems to be the same
The capitalists want to solve the problem of people not being incentivized to work (or to work harder) because their increased income will decrease their welfare benefits. Capitalism's solution, as you've said, is to destroy the system - remove the problem entirely by removing the benefits. But just because you don't agree with that solution (I did say that "either side will fight to the death to prevent the other side from implementing their solution") doesn't mean they don't see it as a problem to be solved.