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posted by takyon on Friday May 22 2015, @12:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the withdrawal-symptoms dept.

The Washington Post reports:

A dollar bill is a special kind of thing. You can keep it as long as you like. You can pay for things with it. No one will ever charge you a fee. No one will ask any questions about your credit history. And other people won't try to tell you that they know how to spend that dollar better than you do.

For these reasons, cash is one of the most valuable resources a poor person in the United States can possess. Yet legislators in Kansas, not trusting the poor to use their money wisely, have voted to limit how much cash that welfare beneficiaries can receive, effectively reducing their overall benefits, as well.

The legislature placed a daily cap of $25 on cash withdrawals beginning July 1, which will force beneficiaries to make more frequent trips to the ATM to withdraw money from the debit cards used to pay public assistance benefits.

Since there's a fee for every withdrawal, the limit means that some families will get substantially less money.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by lil'wombat on Friday May 22 2015, @02:37PM

    by lil'wombat (1664) on Friday May 22 2015, @02:37PM (#186470)

    Was the MBZ used or new?

    Was the lobster on sale?

    Should we require anyone on public assistance to sell all of their possession, wear sack cloth, subsisting only on gruel? Maybe we can require that they never have anything nice ever until they've paid back their debt to society?

    Perhaps we could beat them on a daily basis until the demons of poorness have been driven from their bodies?

    Fuck Kansas, fuck the republicans, and fuck these so-called Christian conservatives.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @03:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @03:01PM (#186477)

    Fuck Kansas, fuck the republicans, and fuck these so-called Christian conservatives.
    And being a bigot towards them really gets them to change their minds? Am I right? If you could just be a bigger jerk maybe they would listen to you.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by AndyTheAbsurd on Friday May 22 2015, @04:17PM

      by AndyTheAbsurd (3958) on Friday May 22 2015, @04:17PM (#186516) Journal

      I might be able to take you seriously if the government of Kansas wasn't bankrupt do to Republicans' inability to accept that they are wrong and that their policies actually have the opposite of the intended effect.

      --
      Please note my username before responding. You may have been trolled.
    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @07:48PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @07:48PM (#186626)

      And being a bigot towards them

      Condemning them for the things they actually do is not bigotry. Try learning what words actually mean, otherwise you just look like a moron.

  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @03:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @03:06PM (#186482)

    Are you and the other troll voters idiots? These slugs are mostly non-white, pumping out kids for bigger welfare benefits, and splurging at taxpayers expense.