Federal benefits should be limited to five years. If you are not making strides to be self-sufficient after two years, you are off the dole, eliminate subsidies to corporations who are not trying to help themselves. The challenges to Taxpayers for Common Sense are that they need alliances and a better label. It is important to build coalitions, like Friends of Earth and Green Scissors. Environmentalists are concerned about external costs.
Somebody pays, sometimes earth pays, but often the taxpayer pays.