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Re: UBI - are you Aye or Nay?
« Reply #30 on: January 19, 2022, 08:34:07 pm »
What if they spend it and don't have the money come tax time?  Then you have to pay people to work on the file to claw it back and slap liens on homes and whatnot.


Yeah. Just like they do now.

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What's wrong with my idea of combining all money handout programs into 1 program under 1 level of government with a bunch of reasons people can be eligible? People apply online and are approved or denied.  Pretty simple.

Yeah, like a UBI.

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One of your arguments is COVID payments.  Why is that a large governmental problem to solve?  The government created the CERB in less than a month.  And pandemics are a once-in-a-century phenomena.  You can just roll it into a part of EI from now.  Pretty simple.

It cost the government billions to do this and was inefficient and, at times, ineffective and overly broad.  It wouldn’t have been needed at all if there was a UBI.

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What problem is UBI trying to solve?  I don't understand.

Ending poverty.  Why is that so difficult to understand?