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	Rex Ballard - Director of Electronic Distribution
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On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, fathers wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 18:36:19 -0600
> From: Larry 
> 
> I just saw the piece on how the welfare system isn't getting the checks 
> to the mothers etc on ABC News...It began with a woman and two kids, she 
> receives $600/mo welfare and $800/mo child support.  Did anybody 
> question why the kids aren't in the custody of their dad???  
> 
> By present guidelines, he would have to make over $2,400/mo to make 
> payments of $800/mo.  The fleecing of America isn't that the welfare 
> support system still isn't online, but that these kids are on welfare 
> when they should be in the custody of their father!!!  What sense does 
> it make to give custody of the kids and have her go on welfare when they 
> could be with their dad???

You forgot the punch-line.  Taxes on $2400/month (State, Federal, FICA, 
and Sales) run about $1200.  Leaving a take-home pay of $1200/month, not 
including deductions for insurance, costs of employment, and retirement.
The mother, by getting $600+$800 gets $1400, MORE than if she had stayed 
married, AND she gets Medicaid, School Lunch Discounts, and Head Start, 
another $400/month (paid for out of dad's taxes of course).  Then of 
course, there is section 8 housing.... and of course administration costs.
Dad's tapped out, who pays for the rest?


> Larry
> lahenson@cc.memphis.edu
> 
> 
> 
> [EXACTLY, Larry!!  Will the 3 Stooges ever figure this out?]
> 

From rballard@cnj.digex.net Fri Mar  1 20:05:44 1996