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Originally Posted by the truth

limite benefits and pay benefits in food vouchers and these people would soon stop breeding for profit

1) with the 26k cap (if they would actually enforce it) benefits are already effectively capped at 3 children, 2 if you live in a high rent price area.

2) The vouchers idea is impractical verging on impossible, as you don't just live on "food". You have food, shelter, utilities, other household essentials (cleaning, bathing etc), transport... all to consider. who decides the ratio of benefits paid as each? Especially as they vary from household to household? Where can vouchers be redeemed? is it only supermarkets for food? What about clothes? Much cheaper 2nd hand online but presumably that wouldn't be an option with vouchers. Who handles VAT - do retailers have to pay cash VAT on money they only have a government IOU for? And what sort of administrative staff would be needed to implement something like this? Not only handing out said vouchers, but paying out the money to the retailers who are redeeming them. Not to mention the obvious potential for retailers to scam the system, redeeming more vouchers than they have actually taken... The scale involved to actually account for each and every voucher would make being "exact" pretty much impossible. oh and what about change? are the vouchers given out as 1p tokens? or as £5 vouchers? what if you're only spending £2.50? do you get change in vouchers, or cash, or just not at all?

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