OT: Why welfare doesn't work!

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They won't because someone is there to do it for them.

Very few. Most will take care of themselves, given the choices.

Yet people do. Willingly.

Not frequent enough.

No thanks. No Internet connection.

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or continue to deal drugs and pimp their women.

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We already have a system that rewards efforts to escape from poverty. If you escape, you get to live in a neighborhood where you don't need bars on your windows and a gun.

However, I agree with your idea of a universal minimum wage. Pay everybody 10k a year in monthly checks, and tax all consumption at

10%. Make the estate tax 95% again. Offer free health care to all, ensure that affordable housing exists, and provide free college to anybody who can qualify. Tax corporate profits at the same levels as other western countries.

Once that is done, we will have a REAL 'level playing field' within which people can exploit their talents for the good of themselves and society. You'll still have the Rich and the Poor, but you won't have 'the rich class' and 'the poor class'. It will actually be possible for people to move from poor to rich in a single generation (and the other way as well... can you say "Paris Hilton"?)

Also, we should outlaw corporations. The owners of companies (and that includes shareholders) should be financially and criminally responsible for any damage that the companies cause. The current scheme enables the rich to escape any liability far too easily, and thus enables corporations to do many very questionable things in persuit of profit.

Have you looked at the republican party lately?

Now. Now. That's very un-Democrat-like ;-)

Huh? Where did I ever say universal minimum wage?

Why? You don't want to leave your kids a nest egg?

That's fine.

I do hope you understand that US corporation taxes are some of the HIGHEST in the world... that's a good portion of the reasons why jobs are going overseas. So you're saying, "LOWER US corporate taxes" ?:-)

They already are. Ask the ENRON types presently sitting in the penitentiary.

Have you looked at the Democrat (communist) party lately?

...Jim Thompson

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It was Reagan that greatly increased the reduction per dollar earned. Until then, people on welfare had significant motive to earn what they can.

Meanwhile, each party mostly does little to fix what the other party broke. Failings of both parties mostly hang around for quite a while and pile up.

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