Asset Tests are Poverty Eugenics

And Even Gavin Newsom Knows It

Why do we INSIST on keeping poor people poor? Come on, people?!

We make them choose between staying broke or lying, and then we vilify them for staying poor and we vilify them for lying. How do I know? I did both just to stop being poor, and I felt the sting of both.

And now that I’m not poor, I am more than happy to tell the hard, raw truth about the wh…