I’s like to trust the poor. However I would agree with adding criteria that must be met before indulging in welfare benefits. By criteria, I mean drug testing, and providing financial history.
I don’t mind paying taxes, and don’t mind some of that money being given to the poor. My main reasoning for wanting to require such things is experience. I worked at a bank recently for quite some time. To get some benefits now, people are required to bring a bank statement. However, the bank statement has to be simply a months history, and have the teller stamp on it. This is not enough. More often than not these same people came in and requested their statements to turn into DHS. The only issue was that they did this, got their blank print out for the month, showing a zero or low balance, and then cashed their paychecks for the month. Most paychecks were not huge, but certainly would be enough to disqualify them from benefits. I think currently, it’s just a little too easy to work around the ‘system’ and would like a little more to be required so that welfare and such weren’t taken advantage of so easily.