I’m wary of using government services to poor people as a cudgel if we don’t also use them as a cudgel on wealthy people. If we made Pell grants and the mortgage interest deduction dependent on vaccine compliance, there’d be more compliance.
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Understand your concern. Perhaps a difference is that WIC is meant to provide healthy food options for women, infants, and children. It's certainly not great, but seems like a more effective short term fix.
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Or maybe offer vaccines at WIC locations instead of denying them food. Just a thought.
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Absolutely!
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Most anti-vaxxers tend to be wealthier than the average American. So how does punishing poorer people for the mistakes of the wealthier people make sense (other than it is an American paradigm to do so). Are you sure you just don't get off punishing poor people?
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I think he has in mind the current measles outbreak, which is not in the typical demography - the victims of misinformation among the ultra orthodox do include the poor. But I agree that as a general policy, this runs exactly into that problem. There are better ways.
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The Jenny McCarthy movement didn’t start in poverty, it was born from ignorance. Poverty does not equal ignorance.
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So forcing kids to go hungry is your solution? Make them suffer more for their parents' erroneous beliefs?
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Yep. Besides being ineffective, there's that too.
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It's not the poor who Are not vaccinating their kids unless it's a problem of access. I say take away the child tax credit. That will get the attention of the offenders.
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