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Poverty
Nathan Moore has a good commentary on poverty and taxes, where he actually looks at a couple other blog posts. Check it out.
Poverty is not an effect of societal inequality, it is a sum of bad decisions. There is really not much argument as to what the causes of poverty are – if you complete your education, get married after the age of twenty-five, and then wait until after marriage to have children, you are practically guaranteed a life outside poverty. Some people don’t do that. I’m happy to help steady the ship – some. To compel help on a limitless basis, however, erodes society of its underpinnings. The key to increasing one’s standard of living is increasing one’s productivity. And despite forty years of utter failure in depending on that hamlet on the Potomac for a solution, there is a significant segment of the electorate that still does not realize there is no other way.
