Letter: Providing incentives to find work
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OPINION: Perhaps Graham Howell (Letters, March 16) considers it acceptable to raise the minimum "main welfare" payments to the equivalent of $15 an hour (presumably for a 40-hour week). But I'm certain he would also consider the consequential rise in the annual tax take to cover this to be an outrage, never mind the rise in the number of beneficiaries this would produce, virtually overnight.
After all, why work hard and pay your taxes on $18-$20 a hour after tax, when you can get $15 an hour for nothing? We need to give people incentives to get off benefits by making state-funded life tough, rather than make this "lifestyle" more attractive to the lazy malcontents we seem to have an abundance of.
Remember, a benefit is a safety net, intended to keep people from starving during hard times; it's not a right. And the sum offered is not open for negotiation.
NATHAN JANES
Johnsonville
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