The fact is that the illegitimacy rate among white welfare recipients is close to black rates, around sixty percent. Essentially, the progressive tax rates have impacted families the hardest. Intact families, where the man serves as the provider of his family, are the foundation of the economy. The driving force of economic growth is married men. Single men only make slightly over half as much as married men of the same age and credentials.
Single men work far less productively and devotedly.
The tax code punishes married men because they earn more. What the poor really need is morals. The welfare state destroys the morals of the poor. Poor people in America live better than the middle class in most other countries in the world. The official poor in America have higher incomes and purchasing power than the middle class in the United States in 1955 or the middle class in Japan today.