You said we should "pay people to sit at home and not commit crime, start riots...". I'm asking whether paying the dane geld is really the most cost effective

You said we should "pay people to sit at home and not commit crime, start riots...". I'm asking whether paying the dane geld is really the most cost effective solution to this problem. I think we've now agreed that it's not actually a real problem, and probably just a post-hoc justification for what you really want to do?