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Originally Posted by xor
And what do you think? Do you think it's realistic to give a single mother 56k a year?.
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Not really, but it's the best solution we have at the moment; certainly better than giving her nothing and having her kids steal my bike :P As far as slashing it, I generally trust that people far smarter than us have worked through the cost of living and determined that that's the appropriate figure.
I actually prefer a more direct benefit system; i.e. you have 3 kids, so here's your 3 bags of rice, bulk pack of chicken thighs etc for the week, go nuts; but the administration/logistics costs probably make it a less efficient use of our tax dollars.