Israel addresses this issue, actually relatively well. At least when it comes to incentivizing disabled people to find work.
It basically works like this: those who get disability benefits (about 1K$ a month, after the recent rise), will have substantially more money if they earn a salary (or have their own business) alongside the benefits they get.
The increase in earnings is guaranteed, because for every X Shekels a disabled person earns, only Y Shekels will be deducted from their disability benefits. While, obviously, X > Y at every bracket.
And from what I know, most people on disability do want to work here, despite being somewhat able to just live-off these benefits.
Maybe the US can learn a thing or two from this.
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that is quite fantastic, I had no idea this was the case and it makes absolute perfect sense in my view. I mean, now that I've gone down this rabbit hole, these ideas of safety nets that don't prevent but actually motivate upward movement seem to be so obvious, I can't help but to think we are ignoring them purposely.
Well, it's not unthinkable that republicans are willing to pay more taxes now,in the hope for massive tax cuts in the future.
A lot of biased people want the currently inefficient system to stay in place, instead of fixing it. Because then, they might be able to dismantle it, and redesign it, so that it will work best for THEM...
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