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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.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday May 22 2015, @07:30PM
I had written a reply which expressed my surprise at reading your reply to my post, which I only wrote to raise some a couple of possible answers to someone's questions.
But now I'm starting to wonder if you had, perhaps, clicked Reply on the wrong post, or had meant to post at the top level but accidentally clicked Reply on the bottom post (something I've almost done more than once). So, I just wanted to check that your post is, in fact, meant to be a reply to mine [soylentnews.org], because it seems like a bit of a non-sequitur, making seemingly unwarranted assumptions about my opinoins and disparaging my mindset for no apparent reason.
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(Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday May 23 2015, @08:49PM
I dunno, "you might not want the government to know where (or on what) you're spending their money" does kinda imply they have a 'right' to it instead of considering it charity. If it is charity the giver SHOULD be making sure it isn't being misused so that scarce resources can be put to the best use, helping the most people possible and minimizing fraud. The notion that the recipient of charity would even consider keeping their use 'private' denotes a defect in thinking. Charities who don't audit their outlays well are the ones who end up on lists of places to not give to, like the Clinton Foundations. If anything we should be demanding those on public assistance produce receipts to demonstrate their good stewardship of the monies given them.