We should let people on Welfare go to work without losing their Welfare benefit. This will reduce what we spend on Welfare by $500 Billion in 10 years and reduce the number of homeless significantly.
- The employers should be able to hire them for 50% of the normal wage for that positio
- To qualify the employer will need to agree to give the government on-line access to payroll records. The employer must publish the hourly rate for each job that they will offer to these employees.
- For example, if McDonalds pays $20 per hour for a position, they will only pay $10 per hour for an employee on Welfare in this program.
- This will reduce the cost of labor for the company and increase their profits.
- The increased corporate profits will generate more tax revenue. Thus, reducing the cost of Welfare
- If the employee gets a raise his Welfare benefit will be reduced by 50% of his wage increase.
- To qualify the employer will need to agree to give the government on-line access to payroll records. The employer must publish the hourly rate for each job that they will offer to these employees.
- Supposedly 50% of the homeless population can be helped and the other 50% generally suffer from Drug and Alcohol addiction or Mental disorders like Schizophrenia
- We need to build drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers and mental institutions to treat and rehabilitate these people.
- These programs will provide food, clothing and shelter.
- They will also educate and train them to get back into the work force.
- Freezing the benefit will force them to enter these programs because the benefits overtime will be insufficient to support them.
- They will no longer receive Welfare Benefits once they enter one of these facilities.
- We will also be inflating our way out of Welfare by freezing the benefit.
- This will get the homeless off the street and train people to be productive members of society that ideally are off welfare and are paying into the system rather than taking out of the system.
- This idea, like all ideas I have come up with, will need to be modified over time. There are always things I have not considered that will require us to modify the plan. Our system of government does not have a mechanism to do this. For this reason, and many others, we need a central committee made up of the heads of each department and a group of non-Partisan apolitical intellectuals to review outcomes and send modifications to the bill to Congress for approval so that we can achieve the best outcome.
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