the title of this hearing, 'How Welfare and Tax Benefits Can Discourage Work,' is at best a misnomer, and at worst is just fallacious non-sequitur.
No, sir, I can tell you that they are not. But I want to stipulate, Mr. Doggett, that welfare recipients are not stupid.
I couldn't afford to lose Medicaid. It is a benefit, and if the government wants to help people, they should.
Perhaps you ought to expand it.
I can tell you what the alternatives are to having $1,000 a month to pay for decent daycare.
I would submit that people don't work just for their self-esteem or for their dignity. They need to make enough money to be able to pay the ...
I once had a job and begged my supervisor not to give me a 50-cent-an-hour raise, lest I lose daycare.
I do want to commend you, Madam Chairman, for the reforms that you have made in the money market funds, these reforms.
You cannot have it both ways.
I am glad that we realize that taking care of children is work.
You do not have to graduate from the Wharton School of Economics to understand this chart.