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Article: PUBLIC FORUM : POVERTY LEVEL.(Editorial)(Editorial)(Letter to the Editor)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- November 20, 1999
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Finally someone had the guts to publish the truth about what the real poverty level is. It's easy to see just how out of touch the federal and state governments are with America and why they think they can just keep raising taxes to keep up with the government's wasteful spending.
Sixteen thousand dollars for a family of four? On which planet? Any family that cannot afford health insurance is poverty level in my book. This is not a luxury and should be totally tax deductible along with any basic necessary living expense. It makes no sense to tax people into poverty and then raise taxes to pay for government programs to help the poor. Wake up America. This ...