Why raising taxes is nessecary

[Dinner]

Besides, you don't even know what my ****ing world view is as I'm for universal care and not this half assed right wing based measure.

[Elok]

They just need to get off their lazy asses and work harder.

"Let them eat cake one of the basic ingredients of cake!"

[ZEE]

elok made a nerd joke!

[Felch]

That's not even a study as it was never peer reviewed and instead it is nothing but partisan propaganda. Go back to the drawing board, junior.

Well, if you look at the study, it says:

We thank David Autor, Jen Brown, Eric Budish, Meghan Busse, Phil Ellis, Sherry Glied, John Graves, Jon Gruber, Amy Finkelstein, Matt Gentzkow, Nathan Hendren, Larry Katz, Lee Lockwood, Enrico Moretti, Casey Mulligan, Emily Oster, Karl Scholz, Jesse Shapiro, Jon Skinner, Ann Stevens, Heidi Williams, and seminar participants at the Kellogg School of Management, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the University of Illinois for helpful comments.

Looks to me like it was peer reviewed.

[regexcellent]

Diabetics, of either type, typically do not regulate their blood sugar by ingesting actual, pure sugar. At least, not unless there's no other option. You may be confusing them with hummingbirds, which are generally much more petite.

Begging strangers for cash to avoid medical emergencies is also not a viable long-term solution to their issues.

One of my best friends from high school has diabetes, he will no **** eat candy if he needs to raise his blood sugar and it works fine. Bulk cane sugar would be kinda gross but it's still sucrose, it would work.

[Elok]

Well, yes, but I believe an ordinary human being could subsist for years on bulk dog food plus a big bag of ascorbic acid. Failing that, add some beef jerky, Flintstones vitamins and old people's fiber supplements to your bag of sugar and you've got a technically-complete diet. If we're talking about food-stamps here, we're talking long-term, and quality of life is a consideration. I'm not going to tell some diabetic dude he needs to stretch his foodstamps by stocking up on Dixie Crystals.

[regexcellent]

I'm not talking about whether you could survive on it long term, I'm just saying how thoroughly ridiculous it is that a diabetic would be unable to afford sugar to treat hypoglycemia under any circumstances. You'd have to be a complete moron.

Though, as for food on a budget, we actually have a poster on this very forum who lived on a food budget of less than $10 a week in Montreal. I live on a food budget of $35 a week, give or take.

[Hauldren Collider]

Beggars make $18 an hour? That's nearly three times minimum wage, after taxes. Why aren't more people quitting their ****ty McJobs?

John Stossel showed you can exceed minimum wage begging near college campuses.

[Hauldren Collider]

Why bother asking? Just walk over to the area where straws, napkins, ketchup and sugar packets are kept and take a hand full of packets.

Good point.

[Aeson]

Additionally, if these people have type 2 diabetes then their problem is probably too much food.

"insulin-dependent" - A real doctor

[Aeson]

It's not surprising that HC would prefer the poor to be forced into petty thievery to control their (or their children's) diseases.

[Aeson]

I'm not talking about whether you could survive on it long term, I'm just saying how thoroughly ridiculous it is that a diabetic would be unable to afford sugar to treat hypoglycemia under any circumstances. You'd have to be a complete moron.

You're the moron.

Hypoglycemia affects a person's ability to think clearly. (They would become more like you.) Relying on a person suffering from hypoglycemia to figure out how to fix their hypoglycemia is a recipe for disaster.

Hypoglycemia in those who are insulin dependent diabetics tends to come from inconsistent diet and exercise causing mismatches with their insulin doses. Relying on a "fix" of rapid, temporary increase in blood sugar such as you get from eating refined sugar is at best a last-ditch temporary stopgap. The real fix is consistent diet and exercise to helps maintain blood sugar stability. Not a 5 lbs bag of sugar.

[DinoDoc]

Hypoglycemia affects a person's ability to think clearly.

Clearly giving them more money is clearly a recipe for success then

[Aeson]

Clearly giving them more money is clearly a recipe for success then

You sound hypoglycemic.

The obvious best approach to the situation is to help people maintain a healthy and consistent diet. Contrary to what Dr Reg and Dr HC have been telling you though, raiding eating establishments of their condiments or stocking up on bags of sugar can not achieve this.

[regexcellent]

All I'm saying is that if you can't afford sugary stuff to keep your diabetes in check, then it's not the fault of insufficient food stamps because that **** is so ****ing cheap you would have to have literally zero assets to not be able to afford it.

And we can't prevent people from blowing all their money on drugs (the illegal kind, not insulin) and then being unable to get sugar. Even through food stamps, because lots of places have illicit markets where food stamps sell for some fraction of a dollar.