The real cost of government is not just the tax take.
Its the work not done, the hires never made and the businesses never started because of bureaucratic predation and economic friction.
This burden necessarily falls hardest on those whose value of output per hour is already low in absolute terms.
The loss of State subsidies in the few countries that have them would certainly disadvantage various categories of persons.
One of my clients hires disabled workers and those recovering from injury. Five-sixths of the government money is hoovered up by just one layer of middleman, who I have heard complain it goes on administration, legal compliance, HR and various forms of insurance (for him, not the supposed beneficery). IDK how much more is wasted upstream by NDIS themselves.
The end of this system would mean intended beneficeries lose even the small percentage that trickles down to them now. I agree it is unlikely that private charity would replace the sums spent presently, but even 10% as much delivered efficiently would be better for them than the status quo.
When it comes to abused children, I don't have a good solution, but adoption and fostering are private charity funded now, and State Care is a nightmare of abuse and indifference.
I had a friend who grew up in State Care. She told me that by age 17 all the girls she knew in care were heroin-using prostitutes, and the boys were either dealing or stealing. (She was a recently-retired high-end escort when I met her).
By age 27 (then), all but one of her friends from "Care" were dead.
Defunding State care would be an act of mercy.
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