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>> There are plenty of usefull things people can do that wouldn't be actually paid
>> for by the private sector. Cleaning the shit up off the road, there's
>> one. Yeah, it's a crap job, but think of it as an incentive to finish high
>> school, 'Davo'. Suppose that WFDL didn't exist, and people had to be employed to do it -
how much per hour do you think it is worth paying someone to clean the roads?
$2/hr? $4/hr? 8$/hr? >> We get clean roads, the potato heads get used to getting out of bed early, the
>> welfare is spent anyway. Result! Let me suggest another idea. You pay people $100/wk regardless of whether
they work or not, and then let them go out and get a job, and keep the money
they are paid. Even if they only get $3/hr, they make $220/wk ($20 more than the
dole?), they get out of bed early, and someone is actually getting useful work,
earning money, and probably paying a few more taxes as well.
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