And again I rip myself off from over at Jes' guestbook.

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"Taxes should pay teachers, and lots more.

Take 3% or so from a welfare person's paycheque directly deposited into a savings account that the person can't access. That way they're not only saving to pay back the government, but earning interest on it so the burden isn't as much when they do take it out to pay, plus that money is available for usage in circulation to the public. Then they aren't slammed with a huge loan to pay off at the end and at least have the beginnings of the means to do so. After they complete welfare, maybe up it to 5% of their income automatically deducted. This wouldn't be enough to put you out on the streets. Someone's going to say "What if you're just making minimum wage?" Well, here that's 5.15. Say it's only 5.00. 3% is only 15 cents an hour. Working 40 hours a week, that's merely six dollars. After five years of welfare, that comes out to 1560 dollars of your loan already paid back. And what if we make it so that the person doesn't even touch the savings account, it can be government controlled, only require that the person pay back the amount that they recieved. By the time they're done paying it back, that account would have earned extra money through interest (even though that's just the government paying itself). So I guess theoretically we could make money off the welfare people.

I probably missed something really obvious, but at 3am it sounds good.

Or we can just eat them."