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Is it a good idea to reform welfare in America by attaching new “strings” to who gets it? For example, for those who get unemployment benefits, food stamps, or other benefits, should we require that they perform X number of volunteer service hours per week? I am thinking that even some small amount of work would not only help eradicate certain corruption in the system, but it would provide a net benefit to our communities. So if for every $50 worth of unemployment received, a person would have to perform 1 hour of service per week. The work would be minimal so as to allow people to continue searching for work, but enough to hold them accountable.Any thoughts on this?
I don't think welfare at the federal level needs to be reformed, it needs to be eliminated. If welfare is a government responsibility at all, it should be at the local level only. Federal welfare is nothing more than an income redistribution scheme that is not about helping people so much as making them dependent. As currently set up welfare is more carrot than stick as there are absolutely no incentives to get off the government dole. I don't even think the feds should be involved in helping the several states fund their own welfare programs. Then again, I think the feds are too involved in using tax dollars as a method of extorting/blackmailing the states into doing things anyway.
