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Originally Posted by rubecube
You said many, and then used it as evidence to suggest that the program was wasteful or not worthwhile. Do you have any stats to back this up, or just anecdotal testimony?
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I didn't say the program was wasteful or not worthwhile. I said, as it stands right now, it's already being abused. That doesn't mean it's not working, as a whole. If you dramatically increased the funds being given out, however, the incentive to work would be decreased and the incentive to fraudulantly collect assistance would be increased.
If the option was getting $2,800/month for doing nothing or $3,200/month for mopping the floors at McDonalds, how many people would show up to work at McDonalds?
Even our current EI and welfare systems are not "guaranteed". You have to be physically unable to work to collect certain kinds of social assistance. You have to have been working or looking for work to collect others. If you just gave a guaranteed monthly income without the requirement to be looking for work or have worked x amount of hours in the last year, the abuse would be rampant.