SamuelRSmith on 26 March 2009
| coolestguyever said: that or just completely remove welfare because its just lazy people leeching off of taxpayers |
Yeah, and then you'd have to make do with a higher crime rate (which would cost taxpayers money anyway, due to public goods being vandalised, higher costs of policing, and greater numbers of prisons, prison staff, etc), and when unemployed people have no money, they can't spend, which means that shop keepers will suffer from lower demand.
It's not as simple as "they don't work, don't give them money", there are benefits to the system, if there wasn't, then the system wouldn't be in place.
