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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
Even if the economics would make sense -- if a person gets $22,000/yr from the taxpayers they should sweep the sidewalks or pick up trash on the highway if they are physically able to work -- no free ride ...
If their gross income is over $22,000 (single person) why give them money for nothing? Maybe, some free education or something beneficial to society.
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A single working age person should have to do SOMETHING to get it. I'm guessing there is only so much trash or sidewalks to sweep though and then you start adding administration costs into the picture again to employ people to manage trash cleaning crews and the paperwork involved. It would also no doubt clash with the prison industrial system where that kind of busy work is income for them. If the economics worked then sure, you can't argue with a factual outcome should it work out that way.. but you'd want people to have to do SOMETHING and the incentivization structure has to ensure that it's still far more beneficial to take on a 15k minimum wage job than do nothing at all. If you can do nothing at all for 22k and work full time for 30k it's not really incentivizing people to work.