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To: neolib who wrote (236529)	11/2/2013 10:38:22 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543032

There's a pretty easy way- but it would require more state involvement. There should be home visits. You need an officer of the state visiting homes to verify income- as much as possible. The fear factor of such visits alone would save money- because some percentage would not engage in fraud if they knew there was a more adequate system to check on it. But I don't think I want fraud cases to end up in traditional prisons- because that's just going to cost us, the taxpayers, more money. I think you need to have workfarms- and make people work off their debt to society, when people are non-violent. It sounds a bit Dickensian, but they could actually be a place where low functioning people learned some job skills. Another solution would be to give out food, rather than cash. Day old foods, and excess agricultural products could be used to feed the poor. A 20 pound bag of rice and a 10 pound bag of beans- and the availability to access government fruit and produce on a weekly basis- something like that. Might even make the poor more healthy. At any rate, there are many possible solutions.