Childcare Reform Act (Debating)

[Associate Justice PiT]

The problem with super gradated means testing, or super gradiated anything, is very soon it becomes more expensive in terms of bureaucracy than it would be just to universalise it.

     The benefit of the sliding scale is that it would make the gradation continuous, so deciding the proper amount would be a matter of a simple calculation that could be done in Excel. It would hardly require tons of bureaucracy to handle that.

[Associate Justice PiT]

The problem with super gradated means testing, or super gradiated anything, is very soon it becomes more expensive in terms of bureaucracy than it would be just to universalise it.

     The benefit of the sliding scale is that it would make the gradation continuous, so deciding the proper amount would be a matter of a simple calculation that could be done in Excel. It would hardly require tons of bureaucracy to handle that.

It's easy enough to do for a few people, yes, but when you deal with a population the size of atlasia then I think you would run into bureacracy costs. For instance you'll need people to submit all their incomes and people to input that and run the database and so on.

     We have people's tax returns as far as that goes. We could probably set something up to just pull the information from their returns and issue them appropriate documentation. Make certain assumptions about those who do not file returns. I am not too knowledgeable about tax law, but the rich don't just cheat the system by not filing a return, so I think that would work.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Aye