How to Cut the Poverty Rate in Half

Re:How to Cut the Poverty Rate in Half by guylhem on Sunday November 03, 2013 @12:23PM (#6664037)

Want a quick and dirty fix? Kill half of the poor. Problem solved immediately. (I hate such rhetorical questions, so this is the ironic answer I always give)

There is no quick way out, and the various "basic income" schemes are untested on such a wide scale, and their consequences unknown.

Those who favour basic income on the hypothesis it will be balanced by a reduction of government redistribution jobs ignore a very important trend: governments never shrink - they grow with time (IIRC, in the US over 40% of the GDP is eaten by the gov)

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Re:How to Cut the Poverty Rate in Half by dllthomas on Monday November 04, 2013 @08:09PM (#6672448)

"(IIRC, in the US over 40% of the GDP is eaten by the gov)"

http://www.morganwarstler.com/post/44789487956/guaranteed-in...

It looks like it's strictly less than 25%, though there could well be categories of spending that's excluding.

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Re:How to Cut the Poverty Rate in Half by shadowspar on Sunday November 03, 2013 @04:27PM (#6665166)

Genocide jokes aren't funny. No, not even yours.

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