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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Re: UBI - are you Aye or Nay?
« Reply #30 on: January 17, 2022, 03:36:43 pm »
1. 2.  That's a service that costs money and that some people don't care about.  They used to drug test welfare recipients but that's gone by the wayside...  What is a higher priority - morality or efficiency ?  Pick one only.

Fundamental justice in our society is more important than efficiency or cost.  Courts are expensive too but we pay for them, same with CRA audits.  Do you also not care if people properly pay their taxes or not?

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3. Because I don't care what they do as long as they don't cause harm.  The 'welfare bum' is a myth as far as I can see, sorry.

I don't care what people do, but i do care how and where taxpayer money is allocated, which can "cause harm".  Giving away free money to not work is about the least efficient/useful thing I could think of.  If you have evidence that people don't commit welfare or social service fraud please feel free to post the evidence.  My evidence is a country filled with people on CERB while employers can't find anyone to fill jobs, which has contributed to inflation and lost GDP and tax dollars while contributing to our deficit/debt.

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4. Yeah I read every bit.  You seem to find it difficult to understand that I don't care about people receiving free money - I don't take that personally.  I get that you do and that's fair.  More people feel like you than me.

If you don't care about unproductive and inefficient misallocation of taxpayer dollars that's up to you obviously.  If more people in Canada agree with you than I on this issue then they want to make Canada a worse country, which I fundamentally disagree with.  Popular doesn't mean right.  I'm sure not having to work and getting free money is a great idea for many, sounds good to me too! But I wouldn't undermine the country's finances and economic output or take tax money from more important programs etc for it.

You again for the 2nd time haven't answered why you would allocate taxpayer money for healthy working age people not to work rather than invest that funding in healthcare/longterm care, homelessness, education, police reform/accountability, indigenous communities, or any number of areas where people actually could use the money.  Care to please answer this question?
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