Social Security Entitlement Restrictions and Structural Reform Act of 2012 (Family Welfare, Family as the governing unit of Society in relation to government subsidies)

Social Security Entitlement Restrictions and Structural Reform Act of 2012
(Family Welfare, Family as the governing unit of Society in relation to government subsidies)  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ocpbGsEGdurMv_5XCedlFMbLV8L_6nwd1NlLM4y17XY/edit

I. Food stamp programs - restriction: if a recipient makes over $10,000 a year as an individual, they may not apply for the program, or it is fraud by income misrepresentation
II. Elder care-appropriated funds, analyses, and restructuring
III. Taxation/IRS audits

In these difficult economic times, as a country, we must understand the limitations of government to meet its obligations when it overextends itself or does not follow adherence to its own programs on sunset laws and various appropriate applications thereof; or in short, when government’s practices and policies become improper governance or misappropriation, by poor administration of collective resources it is necessary to enact reform so that programs are preserved, resources are not pillaged, and integrity is restored to government.

No one ever wants to examine the costs of programs, particularly during an election cycle, because it is unpopular when taxpayers feel that they have paid to have access to these services. The stark truth is that many of these taxpayers have abused the very programs designed to protect the most needy in their families and communities, and this discourse is now necessary before the 2016 projected bankruptcy of the disability trust fund, among other issues related to low cost health care or family care in general.

Since the Clinton Administration, for the past 15yrs., Congress has repeatedly raised the issue of Entitlement Reform, but Congress has failed to lay the ground work or set the standards for such implementation.
Texas Governor Rick Perry drew criticism for his unabashed analyses of Social Security, along with liberal ire, during the 2012 Presidential debates in his comparison to how the government has treated Social Security as if it were a ponzi scheme: others have called these programs sacred cows; however, after a quick review of the numbers in discovering just as much money is spent with Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid sucking up 40% of every tax dollar, these three programs are leeching as much as War-time defense budget use of 40%.

Therefore, we publicly denounced Obama’s 2013 budget package for the following reasons: see Obama's 2013 Budget Package is 30yrs. of economic slavery to government, and it needs to be publicly lit on fire: http://t.co/GaHokx1
1) Obama is impeached.
2) Obama is guilty of misappropriation, and simply asking for a $3.8 trillion 2013 budget, when that revenue doesn’t even exist is not a fiscal policy.
3) We want Congress to restrain use of funds, as the revenue trend is only $2.5 trillion annually, and enter into a debt payment plan for 10yrs. to restore economic and consumer confidence.
4) We intend to aggregate the need for appropriate revenue increases, and attenuate to those who have abused these programs, who have evaded paying taxes for the services that they have used.

I. Food Stamp programs
In general, the need has increased for this program, but the responsibility of private citizens to buy their own food and medicines must be addressed: the government is not a grocery store or a hospital, and the government is ONLY responsible for regulating and ensuring these businesses act lawfully and fairly. The same can be said in regards to insurance. The government must get out of the business of the Church and the private sector markets!

Restrictions on Food Stamp programs:

• Restriction: if a recipient makes over $10,000 a year as an individual, they may not apply for the program, or it is fraud by income misrepresentation

• No purchase of alcohol, tobacco, or drugs of any kind (legal or illegal) may be made with this appropriation, or it is fraud. Recipient must be expelled from the program for trading food stamps for cash or drugs. Drug testing costs are passed onto the taxpayers, so it is best for citizens to report suspected fraud to DFACS and other federal agencies, as Food Stamp fraud and Medicare/Medicaid fraud have been fueling the cartels. In order for a recipient to regain access to food stamps, they must show completion of a drug treatment program to a judge or provide record of counseling.
• Use of this program will incur an increase in federal taxes at a maximum of $2,500 per year, per recipient.
• Personal abuses of this program have been reported: http://exposethemedia.com/2011/02/03/42-9-million-people-on-food-stamps-soda-candy-30-steaks-they-can-even-get-their-food-delivered-to-them/ So with 43 million currently on  the program, federal taxes for revenue recouping on this program = $107.5 billion annually. This is not a tax increase, but the government simply recouping the money appropriated.
• With the abuses of the program, more needy people could be fed who aren’t getting it because the money is being wasted on non-nutritional food items. I have never had to use this program in 30yrs., but being a housekeeper who shops for a family that had to begin using this program, a $350 appropriation has been used to provide for up to 6 people for an entire month.

II. Elder care-appropriated funds, analysis, and restructuring
Many families are faced with serious dilemmas when it comes to honoring the elderly in their lives. With life expectancy over the age of 65 and declining health, life after 60 is an uphill, long haul battle for our Seniors.
Our government can not afford to subsidize elder care that is a private responsibility of family: thus, Medicare, especially Medicare Part D has turned our elders into cash cows for pharmaceuticals, zombies in nursing homes. Managed care is the biggest oxymoron ever known; as an Administrative Assistant for a facility 10yrs. ago, our business office was constantly inundated with bills, and paperwork shuffled to see which government program could pay what and when.
The bigger issue with this, is that a family’s private burdens become publicly heaped onto taxpayers. The managed care solution does not provide dignity or peace before death, as the family and taxpayers grapple with how to pay for it all.

One solution that seems to be working, as necessity is the mother of invention, is supervised home care by a family relative or friend, rather than a certified nurse. The cost of care for an elder can be astounding, and to pay someone minimum wage so that an elder can stay in their home is too much for most families to pay:
$56 a day, at a rate of $7 an hour for 8hrs. a day for 5 days = $280 per week
which is more than most parents pay for day care, but for elder care
at $280 per week, costs run up to $1,200 per month, and $14,400 a year.

If an elder chooses to have round the clock care, 24/7 this cost triples:
$168 a day, $1,200 a week, $4,800 a month, $57,600 per year

*This is just the cost of care at minimum wage, excluding the cost of food and medicine.

In Native American society, we would never consider giving our family member to be a burden on the whole nor would we want our elders to feel that they impose such a burden on the family, to where they could not live out their days in their own home and die with respect, happily, after living a full life into old age. We would never even think of subjecting our elders to a form of care that resembles a prison, except that there is art work and flowers to spice up the environment.

So, when we are talking about the cost of elder care, this is a huge burden on society: an elder who lives at home is the most cost-efficient on family and society both, considering the enormous cost of managed care, and the elder retains their independence and autonomy than being subject to a nursing home environment.

COST DIFFERENTIAL AT-HOME CARE VS. INPATIENT CARE:

            MONTHLY/YEARLY                                    MONTHLY/YEARLY                                         

1YR.              $1,200/$14,400                                   $4,800/$57,600
5YRS.                $72,000                                                 $288,000
10YRS.            $144,000                                                 $576,000
15YRS.             $216,000                                                $864,000
20YRS.             $288,000                                               $1,152,000

CURRENT COST TO SOCIETY, DISCOUNTING INFLATION OR COST INCREASES FOR CARE, JUST ACTUAL NUMBERS OF THOSE NEEDING CARE NOW AND PROJECTED COSTS OF THOSE ESTIMATED TO NEED CARE, WITH 10 MILLION ELDERS AND 15 MILLION PROJECTED:

COST DIFFERENTIAL AT-HOME CARE VS. INPATIENT CARE:

10 MILLION SENIORS YEARLY          15 MILLION SENIORS YEARLY                                         

1YR.              $144 billion                                  $864 billion
5YRS.            $720 billion                                  $4.32 trillion
10YRS.           $1.44 trillion                                $8.64 trillion
15YRS.           $2.16 trillion                                $12.96 trillion
20YRS.           $2.88 trillion                                $17.28 trillion

In short, an elder care tax credit, or ETC, would be much better to address family/multi-family concerns in reducing government cost and subsidizing elder care. It should be a $10,000 standard tax deduction, but the issue is the actual reimbursal or out-of-pocket costs that comes out of household budgets up front, with the rising cost of gasoline and food prices. An ETC could significantly improve the housing market and family relationships related to debts being paid and provide a down payment for a family home, wherein the family can manage its debts.

Conversely, an elder is no longer working, so the taxation needs to be raised on their family at no more than $10,000 a year, if they are not living in their own home or family’s home, being dependent on taxpayer subsidized care.

It would be cost-effective for the government to subsidize at-home care for 8hrs. a day/5 days a week, for families who need to be able to work and whose elder’s Social Security and monthly pension subsidy does not even cover the cost of their weekly care. For most Seniors, their apportionment only covers their household expenses if that, and it does not pay for their care. They either have to leave their home and what they’ve worked their whole lives for to live with family, or have a live-in family attendant.

What they are apportioned monthly from the government doesn’t even cover the cost of their at-home care unless they live with family and not in their own home, and they surely can not afford to live at a facility without incurring serious debts that most of them do not have in savings to pay for the cost of supervised care.

The government would do well in addition to Social Security and Medicare programs, to subsidize an at-home elder care program, to relieve everyone of these burdens by preventing bad debt from being written off on society and thus prevent the leeching of tax dollars to fund facility care.

The less dependent we are on facility care, the better the facility can manage its bills and pay for the Seniors already in their care, and the more functional society will be with consideration of these debts and actual impact costs to family and community as taxpayers.

This Act rejects H.R. 4872 as a drag net for tax dollars, because H.R. 4872 failed to reform health care costs that it was supposedly designed and crafted to contain, which necessitated the repeal of the Class Act by Congress: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/72353.html

III. Taxation/I.R.S. audits

• Food stamps must be paid for annually on taxes filed. An annual assessment will be placed in a taxpayer’s file whether they file taxes or not, and when this reaches $5,000, a marker/flag will be placed on that file that someone has not gained employment or has no intention of paying taxes for the program used. Wherein, the IRS may go and proceed with standard court process to garnish wages until tax debt is paid. This will be shown to reflect the total amount paid into Social Security, and if the amount of federal appropriations exceeds the amount paid into Social Security, the government may seize property as necessary to pay for use of such programs.
• State and federal costs for incarceration may be pursued in the same way to discourage repeat offenders and to encourage someone to continue working as a non-violent offender to pay this debt off rather than use Social Security as a pearl in a shell game of arbitrary freedom.
• Elder care taxation and deductions are as follows, for recouping revenue, preserving the housing and consumer markets, and to stabilize family as the governing unit of Society:

elder care tax credit, or ETC, would be much better to address family/multi-family concerns in reducing government cost and subsidizing elder care. It should be a $10,000 standard tax deduction, but the issue is the actual reimbursal or out-of-pocket costs that comes out of household budgets up front, with the rising cost of gasoline and food prices. An ETC could significantly improve the housing market and family relationships related to debts being paid and provide a down payment for a family home, wherein the family can manage its debts. Conversely, an elder is no longer working, so the taxation needs to be raised on their family at no more than $10,000 a year, if they are not living in their own home or family’s home, being dependent on taxpayer subsidized care.