Making a jobs program out of means testing welfare money has to be one of the most ugly and perverse political ideas of recent times.
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"We're not sure if you should have this money, so just to make sure we're not wasting anything, we'll burn a few tens of billions a year on bureaucrats and overhead costs."
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It makes more sense to remove all welfare and redistribute the money into subsidizing public services than to degrade people this way.