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The current US welfare system is such a complicated clusterfuck of fragmented programs that anything would be an improvement. The most insidious aspect is that
by douche 10y ago
The current US welfare system is such a complicated clusterfuck of fragmented programs that anything would be an improvement. The most insidious aspect is that it has all of these income cliffs where actually working and earning over a certain level means that you lose benefits, so that earning one dollar more may cost you thousands in lost benefits.
- hx87 10y agoThat's a problem with government taxation and spending in general--it's what happens when you map one number to another using discontinuous lookup tables instead of continuous functions.
- aninhumer 10y agoIn what way is that a general problem with government taxation? There's no reason you can't make the tax function continuous, the US just doesn't.