These numbers are really disturbing. I think something like Charles Murray's "The Plan" ( http://www.amazon.com/Our-Hands-Replace-Welfare-State/dp/0844742236 h

These numbers are really disturbing. I think something like Charles Murray's "The Plan" ( http://www.amazon.com/Our-Hands-Replace-Welfare-State/dp/0844742236 http://www.amazon.com/Our-Hands-Replace-Welfare-State/dp/084... ) where each citizen just recieves a $10,000 check every year has a lot of merit. The poor are still helped, but it eliminates the disincentives to do work. Since it's just shuffling dollars, it also minimizes the amount of money lost in the bureaucracy. Another idea is to turn the U.S. government into a joint stock corporation and simply give every citizen dividend paying shares. That way the pie is divided equally, once and for all, and then government can simply concentrate on growing the pie.