Why do these Iowa legislators want to punish people for saving money? I would generally think this group would prefer people to not blow all of their income, but here they are incentivizing people to not save.
This is terrible, but not even close to the worst example of how our welfare state (if you can even call it that) abuses people. The Medicaid rules are completely insane. Did you get some long term care? Ok, now we will take your house and any assets to recoup expenses. Just wild, and they recoup like half a percent of the total cost of Medicaid. Completely wild.
We also have states like Kansas and Mississippi that have continuously refused to accept the federal Medicaid expansion dollars and rural hospitals are failing left and right. I would call it a completely irresponsible stewardship of public goods, but really it is just purposeful cruelty.
I can’t post in the school shootings thread any more because it is too far gone, but the way this country systematically abuses the most vulnerable and feels zero obligation to any other human is really demoralizing.
