@ISIDEWITHQuestionseconomyStarted 11yrs agoActive 4hrs ago

Should there be fewer or more restrictions on current welfare benefits?

In 2011 the level of public spending on the welfare state by the British Government accounted for £113.1 billion, or 16% of government. By 2020 welfare spending will rise to 1/3rd of all spending making it the largest expense followed by housing benefit, council tax benefit, benefits to the unemployed, and benefits to people with low incomes.

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Response rates from 803 Fiscal Conservatism voters.

14%
Fewer
78%
More
12%
Fewer
62%
More
2%
Fewer, and ensure benefits go to those that need it most
7%
More, reform the system so that it supplements, rather than replaces, a working income
1%
Fewer, current benefits do not provide enough support
5%
More, but increase benefits for the elderly and disabled
3%
More, and deny benefits to immigrants
1%
More, current benefits should be capped

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 @B2BMK7Bfrom Alberta  answered…4wks4W

Streamline the welfare system by combining all programs, except those related to pensions & old age security into a Guaranteed Basic Income.

 @B2RKX93from Ontario  answered…4hrs4H

alter benefits for immigrants to allow a certain amount of time but after they need to find employment and can't stay on forever

 @B2C8Z74from Prince Edward Island  answered…3wks3W

Have someone with a functioning brain and who is unbiased reassess the whole thing, because what is considered ‘low income’ is a joke.

 @9ZYKJMRfrom Ontario  answered…2mos2MO

Fewer restrictions should be implemented to individuals who show medical records of consistent medical issues across 5 year period.

 @9FRKFKNfrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

Fewer, increase benefits for elderly and disabled folks as well as reform the system so that it supplements, rather than replaces, a working income

 @9FQ2ZJYfrom Yukon Territory  answered…1yr1Y

More. Welfare should be more money/ adjusted for inflation and local col but the threshold for access should be higher, and reserved for citizens.

 @9FQ2ZJYfrom Yukon Territory  answered…1yr1Y

Welfare should be more money/ adjusted for inflation and local col but the threshold for access should be higher, and reserved for citizens.

 @9FPVJCGfrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

More, completely reform the system so that it supplements, rather than replaces, a working income, while increasing benefits for the disabled who are physically incapable of working.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…8mos8MO

Claudia Sheinbaum Elected as Mexico’s First Female President

Claudia Sheinbaum, the former mayor of Mexico City, will become Mexico’s first female president after romping to victory in an election billed as a referendum on the leftist policies of departing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a vote that handed his party enough power in Congress to push through controversial constitutional changes.Sheinbaum, the candidate of the ruling Movement of National Regeneration, known as Morena, had 58.6% of the votes with 73% of the ballots counted, according to official results from Mexico’s election agency.Her closest rival, Xóchitl Gálvez, the candidate of a coalition of three opposition parties, had 28.4% of the vote and conceded defeat. Jorge Álvarez Máynez, from the center-left Citizen Movement, had 10.6%.Sheinbaum’s victory was bigger than expected and her margin of roughly 30 points would be the largest in a presidential vote since the 1982 election, when Mexico still was a single-party state. Pre-election polls had given her a 20-point lead.The vote reflected a resounding show of support for the government of López Obrador, a populist nationalist who won power in 2018 on an anticorruption platform. After taking office, he launched an austerity program for the federal government bureaucracy and redirected spending to welfare programs, especially cash handouts that included students and the elderly, keeping his approval ratings above 60%. López Obrador, who won with 53% of the vote in 2018, was barred by law from re-election.

 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2mos2MO

German Economy Nears Collapse As Election Nears

Presenting the CDU/CSU’s manifesto on Tuesday. Merz said he would make savings of €100bn by reducing spending on migration and welfare. He also promised tax cuts and lower electricity prices to kick-start the economy, stuck in its first two-year contraction since the early 2000s. Meanwhile, the SPD and Greens pledged to reform Germany’s “debt brake”, its constitutional cap on new borrowing, saying the country needed to invest billions of euros in its ramshackle infrastructure and the green transition.Meanwhile, the SPD and Greens pledged to reform Germany’s “debt brake”, its constitutional cap on new borrowing, saying the country needed to invest billions of euros in its ramshackle infrastructure and the green transition. Some observers worry Scholz’s televised intervention could end up setting the tone for the rest of the contest. Even the Greens, his allies in government, expressed disapproval. “One is sometimes surprised by his choice of words,” said Franziska Brantner, the Greens co-leader. Germany is not used to rambunctious, no-holds-barred elections. Under Scholz’s predecessor Angela Merkel, who governed Germany from 2005-2021, campaigns were soporific affairs, lacking the cut and thrust and spectacle often seen in US contests. But Merz is an altogether different politician. Critics routinely describe him as irascible and touchy, given to intemperate outbursts that delight his fans but can put off more moderate voters. But even his detractors admit his powerful oratory can get under Scholz’s skin. Scholz, too, has changed his tone. As chancellor of a fragile, three-party coalition made up of SPD, Greens and the liberal Free Democrats, he cultivated a decidedly restrained, taciturn style. But that changed in November when he sacked his liberal finance minister, Christian Lindner, triggering the break-up of the coalition after just three years. He has since become a lot more combative. In the vote of confidence debate he accused the liberals of “sabotaging the work of the government” and Lindner of lacking the “necessary moral maturity” required to govern.

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