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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So we incentivize people not to work hard and rather just to be lazy and crap out more kids they can't afford. Great.[/quote]

Time and time again the research has shown that the best way to lift people out of poverty is...to give them money! There is no actual evidence to support the idea thag doing this incentives laziness and other vices. It's actually been shown that it helps tremendously. I would really suggest looking at the facts on this instead of parroting this knee-jerk reaction perpetuatinf this harmful myth. [/quote]

Please cite some of this research. [/quote]

Does your Google not work?[/quote]

I'm a liberal economist. I haven't seen this research. We all know that "paternalistic" policies, grants and things that have strings tied to them, are sometimes out of vogue because they don't maximize the recipient's utility. There have been studies showing that people think they are better off because they get to do/buy what they want with the money, but from a public policy point of view we wouldn't necessarily get the investment in education/housing that we're looking for.[/quote]

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