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AtheistCrusader

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19. All in all, the moving vouchers idea isn't a bad one, on its own.

Reply to meegbear (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 04:07 PM

Feb 2014

With crumbling safety nets elsewhere, its useless, but if we WERE funding social safety nets across the board, such vouchers would be an immensely useful augmentation.

But as long as shitheads are slashing unemployment, food stamps, you name it, we have bigger problems.

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