Families on Welfare Get Free Cars

(Boston, Massachusetts) It's imaginable that the ghosts of Karl Marx are doing the hokey-pokey on this. Families on welfare in Massachusetts are given free cars.

The state pays for the car’s insurance, inspection, excise tax, title, registration, repairs and a AAA membership for one year at a total cost of roughly $6,000 per car.

The program, which started in 2006, distributes cars donated by non-profit charities such as Good News Garage, a Lutheran charity, which also does the repair work on the car and bills the state. [...]

Applicants for cars must have a job or prove they could get one if they had the car in order to qualify. Once they have the wheels, they must send DTA their pay stubs to prove they are employed.

However, if the family member loses the job he/she has or has promised to get, the car does not have to be returned.

Jeez, Massachusetts is turning out to be as good a deal as being an audience member at the Oprah show.

Tip: CNestor