No, they won't all turn to crime. Small percentage will, but that will be enough to negate miniscule savings of cutting social nets. We are not even talking principle here - the view of saving taxpayer dollars by cutting social nets is fundamentally unsound and goes against the well-established facts.

You can believe what you want. The difference between you and me is that you prefer believes and I prefer facts.

http://pun.sagepub.com/content/3/1/43.short
http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=john_donohue [pdf]

But obviously every ideologically pure conservative knows we always been at war with Eurasia should cut social spending to save money.

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