[argonaut]

> Welfare discouraging work has largely been refuted

Did you read your own link? Your own link says: "There is little doubt that welfare can discourage employment, particularly when recipients lose benefits quickly as their earnings from work rise. Still, the effects are muted."

[Futurebot]

Yup.

> largely

> the effects are muted

[argonaut]

The first does not follow from the second.