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[FONT="]Pennsylvania Secretary of Public[/FONT]
[FONT="]welfare has put out a slide showing how the state’s[/FONT]
[FONT="]assistance programs have become a very real[/FONT]
[FONT="]disincentive:[/FONT]
[FONT="]The single mom is better off earning gross[/FONT]
[FONT="]income of $29,000 with $57,327 in net income[/FONT]
[FONT="]and benefits [paid] than to earn gross income[/FONT]
[FONT="]of $69,000 with net income and benefits of[/FONT]
[FONT="]$57,045.[/FONT]
[FONT="]As Dr. Ralph Reiland, the Professor of Free Enterprise at[/FONT]
[FONT="]Robert Morris University notes, “[/FONT][FONT="]Why then go to school[/FONT]
[FONT="]or work harder when the net result is no more[/FONT]
[FONT="]money… and less leisure.” [/FONT][FONT="]So we’ve come to this in[/FONT]
[FONT="]our spending; we spend so much on welfare that it is[/FONT]
[FONT="]economically illogical not to remain on “The dole” just as[/FONT]
[FONT="]it is economically illogical to find a better paying job. You[/FONT]
[FONT="]cannot make this stuff up… nor should anyone, and[/FONT]
[FONT="]we’ve come to this. How sad is that?[/FONT]
[FONT="]welfare has put out a slide showing how the state’s[/FONT]
[FONT="]assistance programs have become a very real[/FONT]
[FONT="]disincentive:[/FONT]
[FONT="]The single mom is better off earning gross[/FONT]
[FONT="]income of $29,000 with $57,327 in net income[/FONT]
[FONT="]and benefits [paid] than to earn gross income[/FONT]
[FONT="]of $69,000 with net income and benefits of[/FONT]
[FONT="]$57,045.[/FONT]
[FONT="]As Dr. Ralph Reiland, the Professor of Free Enterprise at[/FONT]
[FONT="]Robert Morris University notes, “[/FONT][FONT="]Why then go to school[/FONT]
[FONT="]or work harder when the net result is no more[/FONT]
[FONT="]money… and less leisure.” [/FONT][FONT="]So we’ve come to this in[/FONT]
[FONT="]our spending; we spend so much on welfare that it is[/FONT]
[FONT="]economically illogical not to remain on “The dole” just as[/FONT]
[FONT="]it is economically illogical to find a better paying job. You[/FONT]
[FONT="]cannot make this stuff up… nor should anyone, and[/FONT]
[FONT="]we’ve come to this. How sad is that?[/FONT]