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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (97930)3/13/2005 12:23:18 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
This whole debate circles around one point: How much of MY resources will I personally allow SOMEBODY ELSE to get?

The fact is we have a government to provide for the needs of the secular good but its only partially funded by taxes. We also have the ability to make certain ventures tax-exempt. If we want to look like India, then we could just let the beggars and untouchables breed and let market forces control their destiny. That is not my vision of the future. My socialist leanings were largely disappointed by my experience in the Navy, however. I saw first hand how the inefficiency of a bureaucracy works.

I've done some deep thinking about this, and have concluded if you want to feed kids then you create an economic incentive to do so: tax free status and government subsidy, with performance bonuses for efficiency. If they get x% qualified kids to nominal muscle mass and the blood tests show no malnutrition or obesity, then there's a bonus for the executives. That's how to do it. Same with teen pregnancy. Pay teens who don't get pregnant. Pay teens who don't impregnate. Provide a system of governmental service in return for skills development. It all costs money, but in the end, provides a benefit of a well-trained society in which everyone prospers. Yes, there would be fraud.
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