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Not if the checks were given to adults only. People would probably be less likely to have kids if they knew they'd have to make do with what they had rather than figure their benefits would be increased. Maybe those who continued to have kids they couldn't support could turn to their church or friends or family instead, because they'd get no more from the government.
$12,000 per capita is more money than current means-tested welfare costs, so conservatives would never support the massive tax raise to fund it.
Further, when pedal hit the medal many of the liberals trying to push it wouldn't when they realize that the current welfare class would take a huge hit if you dismantled all current means-tested welfare programs to go towards funding it, since those programs move more resources per person to the chronically poor than this would replace by far.
Can't design it in a way that gets buy in from both sides given the price-tag and potential funding sources.
Of course all of this has been discussed the last time this topic came up.......and the time before that....etc. I think this topic only comes up so often just to be batted down as mathematically and politically unfeasible time and time again because there's a subreddit actively pushing it and circlejerking so people don't lose attention.
I would support it. It's a rehash of Milton Friedman's negative income tax.
Unfortunately, it will never fly with libs, because it would replace a bunch of 6-figure bureaucrats in DC with a simple computer program. Can't have that.
Ahh, remember there is no simple computer program when you're speaking of the federal government.
You insinuated it. You said if you don't work, you shouldn't get any money. In other words, people who aren't physically able to perform any demanded work don't deserve money.
Seriously, aren't the disabled.........disabled? And on some form of government programs like social security or Medicaid/medicare? I don't know if they would be included in this system, but that's for the bureaucrats to determine.
Not if the checks were given to adults only. People would probably be less likely to have kids if they knew they'd have to make do with what they had rather than figure their benefits would be increased. Maybe those who continued to have kids they couldn't support could turn to their church or friends or family instead, because they'd get no more from the government.
Go read up on the basic income movement.
Money goes to every man, woman and child.
I disagree with this. I say it should only be given to adults.
So to get conservative/libertarian/republican buy-in you get rid of food stamps, public housing, medicaid, liheap, etc. programs that are massively tilted to benefitting poor parents, and poor single mothers in particular, and give a flat per-capita entitlement to everyone, but only to adults so the same low-or-no income single mothers who get the most from the current system will get the least from the new one?
Congrats you've declared war on the most democratic constituency in the country. Good luck getting the Democrats on board with that.
So to get conservative/libertarian/republican buy-in you get rid of food stamps, public housing, medicaid, liheap, etc. programs that are massively tilted to benefitting poor parents, and poor single mothers in particular, and give a flat per-capita entitlement to everyone, but only to adults so the same low-or-no income single mothers who get the most from the current system will get the least from the new one?
Congrats you've declared war on the most democratic constituency in the country. Good luck getting the Democrats on board with that.
Yes
Would you be in support if we gut all welfare programs?
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