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I care a lot more about the social effects than the "taking my money" part. Having lived in areas with very high unemployment rates, there's not much good to s
by downerending 7y ago
I care a lot more about the social effects than the "taking my money" part. Having lived in areas with very high unemployment rates, there's not much good to say about them.
- xyzzyz 7y ago> Having lived in areas with very high unemployment rates, there's not much good to say about them. Indeed, and for this precise reason incentivizing unemployment by supporting the vaping and video game habits of the unemployed is exceedingly bad social policy. Suppose government didn't do redistributive welfare. If you're a typical HN user, you'd probably then end up with tens of thousands of extra dollars a year saved on taxes. Would you then use these tens of thousands of dollars to help your own neighbors enjoy life of vaping and playing video games?
- downerending 7y agoI'm not a typical HN user. I probably earn less than 70% of you, and most of my salary goes straight to alimony. Taxes take half of the rest. It's not that those taxes don't sting for me--they surely do--but rather that I think the social effects of worklessness will be huge. It wouldn't take that much for the US to drop into the second world.