I have at times wondered how possible it would be to implement a negative income tax here but I doubt government is capable of the required administration on one hand and if you touch the grants there will be riots.
Actually the government shouldn't be involved with anything like that. Aside from disability and old age grants, giving someone an income stream for something they don't have to work for isn't going to get them out of poverty. The problem is that there is no way for a government to decide who should get help and who shouldn't fairly.
The solution is to privatise this section of welfare.
Change the tax act such that a good portion of an individual's taxable income has to go to charities of their choice. The charities have to be designated to helping people. So it can be a homeless shelter, an orphanage, an adult education center, a school, a soup kitchen and so on.
Charities have non-dependable income so they are incentivised to make people less dependant on them.
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