• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    What you call ‘market distortions’ are at times the only other means of getting additional money into the hands of low income earners.

    If someone’s already paying $0 in income tax, either because they are on disability payments, a student, or caring after a loved one - then providing them with supplemental rental and nutritional payments are sometimes the only thing standing between them becoming unhoused and going hungry.