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Strong social welfare that simply provides people for a level of living somewhere above the poverty line sets a floor on wages and makes business pay people significantly more than they can get by drawing social welfare benefits, dispersing wealth more widely and flatly increasing the fluidity of the base of the economy and resulting in a stronger economy than what we currently have where welfare functions as a subsidy to low pay low benefit employers like McDonald's and Wal-mart.