If I know one thing about progressive, leftist ideology, it’s that they hate the poor. Even though they say the exact opposite, that’s the reality.
Sure, we can go into the more theoretical (but very much realistic and fact-derived) argument about how capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any government program ever will… But in this case, we don’t even have to explain it like that.
California has decided to give anyone making less than $500k per year “inflation relief” checks for up to $1,050 (I know, I know, I know… let’s gloss over the irony of that, just for the sake of getting to the main point of this).
THE PROBLEM is that that there’s a group of people who they didn’t include on their list, and therefore won’t be eligible for the government handout money.
POOR PEOPLE.
Seriously… The money an individual or family receives will be based on their income in their 2020 tax filing, which is the most recent filing available for this purpose.
Here’s the thing, the lowest of the low-income residents of California, likely did not or do not file taxes. They would not have a 2020 filing to show, and therefore would be ineligible to receive the funds.
In other words: the people getting the most tightly squeezed by inflation won’t be getting a check to help with inflation.
I feel like it goes without saying but I’ll say it anyways, this whole idea of “inflation relief” is dumb, and giving people a little extra spending cash is just going to make the problem worse by increasing inflation. BUT considering that it’s happening anyway, it’s hilarious that CA, the most liberal of liberal states, is going to leave out the poor people that they pretend to advocate for…
Irony.
