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Comment by nebalee

12 hours ago

> When you create perverse incentives you attract systematic cheaters. We literally conducted this experiment in Germany. Now the government is trying to roll out a restricted benefits card instead of giving out cash, because people come from overseas just to get on the benefits system and send the cash back home.

Is this anything more than a right-wing talking point? There is no proof that this is actually happening in any meaningful scale.