Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> Declan Murphy wrote:
> 
>>minimum wage should be a living wage - if that can't be done without
>>an increase in the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment
>>(nairu) then some form of negative income taxation system would do
>>the job.
> 
> Sepponia has one, but it doesn't quite do the trick. Back when I was an
> impoverished student working my way through college, the gub-ment gave me
> something like $300/year as my little bonus for staying off of welfare.
> Didn't exactly pay the rent.

I'm not sure what the current maximum bursary in Oz or Ireland is for 
fulltime students from low income backgrounds, but when I was studying 
it was still a fair bit less than the minimum wage (though shitloads 
more than USD$300/year). And fair enough.

> Funny thing about Sepponians is that while they generally hate the rich,
> they also hate the poor, and anything that sounds like a handout.

That isn't something as peculiar to Sepponia as you may or may not think.



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