UBI Welfare Debate
Comments debate whether universal cash transfer programs like UBI are equivalent to traditional welfare, critiquing means-testing, work incentives, and government handouts.
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We can't just give people money?
Yes it's welfare by another mechanism. It's giving you someone else's money, not letting you keep more of yours.
If this isn't welfare, what is?
Not too different from the "I earn $xxxk/year, and don't need any help from welfare programs. Why do we even have them? They make people lazy" crowd.
This sounds like welfare with extra steps
Giving the poor less free stuff != taking stuff away from them.
It seems counterproductive to the point of welfare to have the people who need welfare pay for it. It isn't an insurance policy.
Unless I'm missing some obvious sarcasm here, isn't this exactly what a welfare state does?
Don't we already heavily subsidize poverty via welfare programs? I don't see how throwing even more money at a problem would have a different outcome.
I'm guessing there are welfare programs that make up the difference? Subsidised housing, food stamps etc.