If you blinked, you missed it. For about five seconds on Wednesday night, the biggest problem in American society today, the decline of marriage, was mentioned once … kind of … but not really.
In response to a question about eliminating the Department of Education, Vivek Ramaswamy first pushed the crazy idea that U.S. citizens should have to pass a citizenship test before being allowed to vote, and then he pivoted to the state of the family.“And the fact of the matter is, look, there is a part of education policy that also rests with the family,” Ramaswamy said. “I didn't grow up in money. But you know the word privilege gets used a lot.
Name any means-tested federal assistance program. SNAP, Medicaid, EITC, Section 8 Housing, even Obamacare private insurance subsidies. All of these programs have benefit cliffs where if a household’s income goes over a certain amount, benefits are either decreased or eliminated entirely. The exact marriage penalty varies widely on which programs families participate in, how much they make, and how many children they have. But as this study shows, it is not uncommon for a family of four earning just $44,000 a year to face a yearly $10,500 penalty if they get married.
But before we congratulate Ramaswamy for raising this very important issue, notice what word he never uses. It's kind of a key one.To be exact, the federal government is in no way paying single women not to have men in the home. What the federal government is doing is paying women not to get married. And that’s a big difference.
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