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Comment by MichaelZuo

5 months ago

How can trust be irrelevant? Why would anyone want pretenders and deceivers to have better families?

If you yourself alongside everyone else in your country benefits why should you care if you happen to dislike some of those people?

  • Because YOU are paying for those benefits and they aren’t. If you truly don’t see how offering something for free would attract all the freeloaders, increasing the load on those who work, there’s no saving you.

    • What I am describing is you literally saving money.

      If a government can convert a 1k outlay into 1.1k of tax revenue that same month you aren’t actually paying for those benefits you are getting a little revenue instead of zero revenue. Due to their debts operating across such long timescales people make the same basic argument for things that take longer to see positive returns, but daycare is a very short loop.

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