Yusshin
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Well, we all know there's always one or two people who abuse the welfare system. Actually, to be specific, thousands of people abuse it. While fully capable of working and searching a job, they and their family prefer to stay at home, reap in 2,000$ of the tax payers' money, and reject every job proposed to them by the government. The majority, I'm sorry to say (and point fingers), are immigrants - not Canadian/American/whatevercountryyou'rein-born immigrants, but immigrants from other countries, specifically East-Asian countries (i.e. India). They immigrate here and reap the tax money they never actually got taxed for during their lifetime.
My question to you is: what can we or the government do about this?
My suggestion would be to focus welfare on the following groups:
- The mentally handicapped
- The physically handicapped
- Students & Single Parents
- Out-Of-School Youth (Until 27)
The rest would have a maximum of two years on welfare; meanwhile, immigrants would be charged with working first before being eligible to acquire welfare. It's not fair that they come into our country and obtain welfare, sit on their butts, and never pay for things with money they earn and feed back to the system with taxes. In fact, the money from the government just ends up going into the pockets of the landlords, to companies, or back into the system as "recycled tax". They shouldn't be able to reject jobs offered by the government either. Two years limit, regardless family, then the opportunity of welfare is removed.
The mentally and physically handicapped wouldn't have a limit. I don't mind paying for the wheelchaired man, or the man with a single leg, or the man with a mental deficiency. I don't mind paying for the single mother or father or a promising student temporarily either. Students would be given a year of welfare after they acquire their final degree in whatever they're doing to find a job. While they're schooling, they should always be eligible for welfare. Single parents should always be eligible as well, but they would have a similar time limit to the already-worked-in-[country] immigrant. Two years is enough time to figure out how to handle having a child and working at the same time. Who knows? You might even find a working partner by that time, in which it would be easier for you, and welfare woud be revoked pending the other person's salary.
Youths should always be eligible as well, regardless of them going to school or being a single parent. A youth who's kicked out of their house and who has nowhere to go should always be allowed to live from welfare. Of course, there would be a limit on that, too. If they don't go to school or don't find a job, they, too, should bear the limit of two years. They shouldn't be able to reject constantly the propositional jobs of the government either.
Of course, people who aren't handicapped / youths / single parents / students can have welfare as well, but only in dire circumstances, such as suddenly losing an income, the death of a spouse, etc. Even then, maximum two years. Two years is a long enough time to find a job to replace the one that was lost, or to figure out what to do about that other income who was lost at the death of a spouse.
I'm just tired of paying taxes for people who laze around and refuse to work on purpose, or because they don't want to be a dishwasher. Seriously.
My question to you is: what can we or the government do about this?
My suggestion would be to focus welfare on the following groups:
- The mentally handicapped
- The physically handicapped
- Students & Single Parents
- Out-Of-School Youth (Until 27)
The rest would have a maximum of two years on welfare; meanwhile, immigrants would be charged with working first before being eligible to acquire welfare. It's not fair that they come into our country and obtain welfare, sit on their butts, and never pay for things with money they earn and feed back to the system with taxes. In fact, the money from the government just ends up going into the pockets of the landlords, to companies, or back into the system as "recycled tax". They shouldn't be able to reject jobs offered by the government either. Two years limit, regardless family, then the opportunity of welfare is removed.
The mentally and physically handicapped wouldn't have a limit. I don't mind paying for the wheelchaired man, or the man with a single leg, or the man with a mental deficiency. I don't mind paying for the single mother or father or a promising student temporarily either. Students would be given a year of welfare after they acquire their final degree in whatever they're doing to find a job. While they're schooling, they should always be eligible for welfare. Single parents should always be eligible as well, but they would have a similar time limit to the already-worked-in-[country] immigrant. Two years is enough time to figure out how to handle having a child and working at the same time. Who knows? You might even find a working partner by that time, in which it would be easier for you, and welfare woud be revoked pending the other person's salary.
Youths should always be eligible as well, regardless of them going to school or being a single parent. A youth who's kicked out of their house and who has nowhere to go should always be allowed to live from welfare. Of course, there would be a limit on that, too. If they don't go to school or don't find a job, they, too, should bear the limit of two years. They shouldn't be able to reject constantly the propositional jobs of the government either.
Of course, people who aren't handicapped / youths / single parents / students can have welfare as well, but only in dire circumstances, such as suddenly losing an income, the death of a spouse, etc. Even then, maximum two years. Two years is a long enough time to find a job to replace the one that was lost, or to figure out what to do about that other income who was lost at the death of a spouse.
I'm just tired of paying taxes for people who laze around and refuse to work on purpose, or because they don't want to be a dishwasher. Seriously.
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