Scottie Mayfield, GOP Candidate, Calls Medicaid And Welfare Recipients 'Non-Taxpayers'

[Akoto]

9. Fuck him. I am on disability, Medicaid, EBT ...

Contrary to what people like him believe, it is far from a free ride. We do pay taxes when, as the objection stated, we do things like shopping. We also don't have a wealth of taxpayer money to play with. You can't have both utilities and lobster/prime rib dinners (what they seem to think our diet is).

The maximum I am allowed to have in the bank is $2000, else I am penalized. I get $694/mo, the cap for SSI in my state. $370 of that immediately goes to my parents as fair share (rent) payment. I get $50 in food stamps, and the rest has to be paid for by my actual cash. Then clothes needed, internet, etc. Medicaid does not cover my dental care or the kind of eye care I need, so those are out of pocket. It's very tight living, and certainly not tax-free.

I'm tired of pricks like this guy making the disabled and unfortunate feel subhuman.