Accusing the federal government of conspiring to “spread rent supplement into middle-income suburbs and neighborhoods,” Fino dismissed the program as a “racial and economic balance sheet” that “rewards rioters and subsidizes spongers.” For Fino (who also strongly opposed the antipoverty program and busing), rent supplements were another example of liberals’ attempts to socially engineer the nation toward integration and redistribute whites’ hard-earned wealth to the undeserving inner-city minority poor.
Bronx Republican Paul Fino
