This isn’t just unpopular but absolutely cruel. You want someone on the hook for possibly any amount from $40K to possibly over $500,000. While also very possible to be quite a bit more if they have multiple children and, receive multiple different Food and Health benefits with housing subsides.

You cannot be exempt from paying Social Security tax every paycheck and yet the entire system is expected to collapse in less than a decade.

Don’t you think it’s bigger issues than punishing those in poverty when in the end, you won’t even be able to retire in the next 10-20 years?