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Re: UBI - are you Aye or Nay?
« Reply #30 on: January 19, 2022, 10:06:15 pm »
No, stop arguing in bad faith.

How will this end poverty any more than improving other current programs?  This certainly won't end homelessness.  Homeless people are usually qualified for welfare but they are usually addicts who spend their money on their addiction so they can't keep an apartment or pay bills properly.

It may indeed help poverty if everyone gets a cheque and have it clawed back at tax time, but also create other problems for others like debt.  I'm glad you seem to agree that at least some people shouldn't be eligible.

Everyone is eligible. 

Everyone gets it.

If you don’t need it, it’s taxed back.

I’m not sure why you have such difficulty with grasping concepts like this.  Have you ever read anything about it?  It doesn’t sound like you have…. You just argue against it out of some sort of principle.

I don’t like druggies.  Can’t stand those loser reprobates.  I also think druggies should get free drugs from the government because it helps society overall with things like lowering crime, prevention of overdoses that use up valuable medical resources, etc.   I acknowledge that the world shouldn’t revolve around what I find acceptable.  Sometimes the greater good means we hold our noses.

Or, you can be a jackass and rant about how lazy people shouldn’t get money, blah, blah.  And solve nothing.
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