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2008-03-18 Home Front: Politix

File under WTF: Free towing for those "hard working" welfare recipients--

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Posted by Icerigger Redux 2008-03-18 08:36|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Actually they may have a point here. For the working poor, a car is often as essential to their livelihood as a house is to the middle class.

Much like laws preventing the seizure of "workman's tools", the idea is that, by waiving a fine, they are keeping them from losing what work they have and needing even more welfare.

This amounts to tax relief for the poor, not having to shell out maybe $300 they don't have, because their car got towed and impounded.

And arguing that the poor should have to pay the same tax as the middle class or wealthy avoids the obvious "getting blood out of a turnip" problem. What is just an annoyance to the middle class can be ruinous to people who are just getting by.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-03-18 11:38|| 2008-03-18 11:38|| Front Page Top

#2 True. Though it might also occur to the working poor who are totally dependent on their vehicles to make a living - unlike middle class people who can always cycle or take a hot air balloon to work - they they might, like, not park their cars illegally.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-03-18 11:40|| 2008-03-18 11:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, folks, it was either this or free valet parking in the projects...

Posted by tu3031 2008-03-18 15:49|| 2008-03-18 15:49|| Front Page Top

#4 in GA if you and your spouse make more than $10 an hour combined you can't get welfare. so where do these ppl have too go. hell i can barely afford the neccesities and they wouldn't piss on me if i was on fire but they going too tow the Escalade for free. tell them tyoo walk if they don't have money for gas i have done it plenty of times. goddamn mooches is the problem with this country starting in new orleans and all the other minority based metropolises , or use public transportation.

Posted by sinse 2008-03-18 16:14|| 2008-03-18 16:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Cool....so it won't just be the rock stars parking wherever the hell they want.

Now, if they meant that working poor people *upon driving to or from work* got a flat or had a radiator blow or some such and got a free or discounted triple-a type service - I could be more amenable to that. Not free towing for someone too lazy to shovel out their wheels.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-03-18 20:26|| 2008-03-18 20:26|| Front Page Top

#6 "free towing to anyone already on welfare--at taxpayer expense"

If they're on welfare, they're already "at taxpayer expense."

What's that got to do with the working poor?

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