Issues of Poverty

Is redistribution of wealth through tax policy a viable option for addressing issues of poverty?

Issues of poverty

Introduction

Social welfare issues are the issues which are associated with the society. These are issues which are creating problems for the society. These issues include societal issues, environmental issues, which provide welfare to the people. The issue being discussed here is poverty. Poverty originates from a failure of society, or from a failure of decisions one must make as an individual. A greater concern for poverty could be raised in society if the information concerning the two arguments combined and not used to rule out the opposing perspective. If more research was combined from opposing schools of thought, more solutions are offered to treat poverty immediately. Poverty needs to be measured in order to explore solutions. Mirlees, (2004), a professor of philosophy, wrote about the difficulties of defining poverty in The Persistence of Poverty.

Saez (2009) raises the question about the relativity of poverty and how it appears to mean different things in different parts of the world. When poverty is used to describe a circumstance where one cannot meet basic needs due to scarce resources, how can we define what basic needs are (Ramsey, 2006)? Basic needs also include nonphysical needs. For example, the needs for dignity, self-respect, and social inclusion are widely seen as universal, even though not directly tied to physiological needs (Slemrod, 2002). A simple idea like a fundamental need is instinctually understandable. Although, defining what a basic need is to provide quantifiable research can become very difficult. Basic needs are abstract, intangible ideas. Another issue that makes poverty difficult to define and measure is that the experience of poverty varies subjectively within the person. The subjective experience of poverty can vary because the impact also has to do with how socio-economic discourses are internalized within the person.

Policy Analysis

There was a huge impact of this tax policy in Omaha, Nebraska. Although the use of benefits and tax credits has the potential to facilitate the income redistribution, this has not been a policy. The road to equality of opportunity starts, not with tax rates but jobs, education and the reform of the welfare state (Blumenthal, 2005). The outcome - and value - of comparing applied policy in relation to poverty are that it highlights the narrowness of the tax policy to break the impasse in progress, and dependence on education as being the clinching factor, underpinned by a questionable rationale about the future globalised labour market. Beverly (2006) suggests that, in a break from old stance on high tax for high earners, the US tax policy involved “a very conscious effort not to be seen to be trying to penalize those at the top end of the income distribution. For too long we have used the tax and benefit system to compensate people for their poverty.

Poverty refers to distinct and different concepts. The US government anti-poverty policy - by which I refer primarily to policies targeted at eradicating poverty ...