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Re:Japan home to 541,000 young recluses by douche on Thursday September 08, 2016 @08:29AM (#12452339)
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.
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Re:Japan home to 541,000 young recluses by hx87 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @10:12AM (#12453150)
That'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.
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Re:Japan home to 541,000 young recluses by aninhumer on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:54PM (#12455363)
In 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.
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