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Totally agree, it should be obvious no matter your politics that the way disability benefits are currently structured incentivize people to not work, and serve
by lstyls 12y ago
Totally agree, it should be obvious no matter your politics that the way disability benefits are currently structured incentivize people to not work, and serve as a de facto welfare system.
The problem is that it's going the be impossible to get an agreement on the solution. Conservatives would take this as an opportunity to slash disability benefits and walk away. Liberals would look toward new government programs.
- humanrebar 12y agoUh... the above-mentioned Earned Income Tax Credit solution is very popular in conservative circles. What conservative publications are you reading that advocate a slash-and-walk policy? EDIT: Here's a conservative think tank advocating the EITC as an alternative to a minimum wage hike: http://www.aei.org/publication/earned-income-tax-credit-does-better-job-of-lifting-workers-from-poverty/ http://www.aei.org/publication/earned-income-tax-credit-does...
- jorgis 12y agoThe problem I see with using EITC in this way is that it masks the cost of labor for any company paying minimum wage. A huge hole in arguments against raising the minimum wage is that few seem to address the fact that many workers are already receiving additional pay in the form of benefits. The benefits are more expensive and less flexible than an equivalent pay raise, because new bureaucratic infrastructure inevitably has to be created to manage the new benefit. Is that really more efficient than just paying higher wages?