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Comment author: ChristianKl 25 October 2014 04:44:08PM *  2 points [-]

In the real world there are cases where a person with 0 income get's X support from the government. On the other hand there are people with income less than X who don't get government support.

That means there an incentive out there to have income 0. The phrase "paying for" suggests to me that you create a monetary incentive for something.

I think you dilute the value of the phrase "paying for" when you don't let it mean "create a monetary incentive for something".