Quote from: squatz1 on August 05, 2018, 08:41:27 PM

Before I respond to you Glum, I do want to let you know that it is kind of frowned upon to quote an entire post when you're responding to me -- all it creates is more of an annoyance when people are reading through responses. I know you're new to the forum, so this is just for next time and so you don't bother anyone!

Thanks for pointing that out. Nobody had ever mentioned that to me before. I'll try to be better at it.

Quote from: squatz1 on August 05, 2018, 08:41:27 PM

Exactly. I think that these limits do nothing but make people double think working hard if you remove these limits and just give EVERYONE benefits -- then you're going to enter a world which is more productive as they have the reason to be more productive. As they're not going to lose out if they attempt to progress.

I just realized another way that we could be more productive. If you give everyone benefits, like you say, then you wouldn't need to worry about who deserves them or not. You could actually eliminate a huge amount of people who work for the government to determine who deserves help and who doesn't. This would free up a lot of people from pointless work. It would also free up a lot of resources that went into that.

Quote from: squatz1 on August 06, 2018, 06:40:41 AM

As theymos quoted before, 13,000 per year would be cheaper than all of the current welfare systems which are present in the United States. So it's not like we're going to be digging further into debt.

I would like to point out that the US is constantly digging itself further into debt. IT would be more accurate to say, "It's not like we're going to be digging further into debt any more quickly."