{"id":10258,"date":"2023-03-23T13:18:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10258"},"modified":"2023-03-23T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:18:13","slug":"when-the-government-makes-poverty-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10258","title":{"rendered":"When the Government Makes Poverty Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfoundation.org\/research\/pennsylvania-poverty-prosperity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">survey<\/a>&nbsp;of more than 1,000 low-income Pennsylvanians found that taxes are often a major barrier to economic security\u2014ranking ahead of more commonly discussed problems such as credit card debt and student loans. Among those surveyed, all of whom have incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level (about $53,000 annually for a family of four), the average respondent reported paying $4,575 per year in taxes.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;The paper asks officials to consider a counterfactual history: If Pennsylvania had enacted a rule in 2003 that capped future government spending increases at a combination of inflation and population growth (and had returned the surplus to taxpayers), the average low-income resident of the state would have an extra $20,000 in the bank today, simply due to the lower tax burden.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"FJR4o4JLWK\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/02\/27\/when-the-government-makes-poverty-worse\/\">When the Government Makes Poverty Worse<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;When the Government Makes Poverty Worse&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/02\/27\/when-the-government-makes-poverty-worse\/embed\/#?secret=4bOEWOY4Pl#?secret=FJR4o4JLWK\" data-secret=\"FJR4o4JLWK\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;a survey of more than 1,000 low-income Pennsylvanians found that taxes are often a major barrier to economic security\u2014ranking ahead of more commonly discussed problems such as credit card debt and student loans. Among those surveyed, all of whom have incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level (about $53,000 annually for a family of four), the average respondent reported paying $4,575 per year in taxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The paper asks officials to consider a counterfactual history: If Pennsylvania had enacted a rule in 2003 that capped future government spending increases at a combination of inflation and population growth (and had returned the surplus to taxpayers), the average low-income resident of the state would have an extra $20,000 in the bank today, simply due to the lower tax burden.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[167,1469,676,707,141],"class_list":["post-10258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-government","tag-government-intervention","tag-poor","tag-poverty","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10259,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258\/revisions\/10259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}