Comment 27893

By A Smith (anonymous) | Posted December 14, 2008 at 19:15:50

Grassroots, wherever you move city hall, that area will also become a dead zone. If we need politicians at all, I would rather we just pay them to sit at home. The same goes for all city employees. Give them a buyout and tell them that their services are no longer required.

I would also like to agree with you on one of your points regarding government spending, namely welfare payments. You believe that they are too low. Even though I don't believe these payments are necessary, nor do I believe they help the people receiving them, I would rather the government give people more cash, then go to the trouble of building housing, create training programs, etc.

By giving people more cash, you are also giving them the freedom to purchase what they as individuals feel is best for their situation. In this sense, you are replacing top down planning with a more chaotic economic model. In the seventies, when welfare rates peaked in Canada, the economy grew much faster than it does today.

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