Is it cheaper to give people free money? (drugs, Brown, independence)
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It costs $100 a day to house someone in prison ($3,000 a month).
Some really nice and rich countries give their citizens $900 a month no matter what, or something like that. (Finland?).
Imagine all the fewer emergency calls to homeless people, for medical or for criminal, if they were just given enough money to live on without being homeless.
There would still be some emergency calls and still be some criminals, but I would guess a lot less since people would have the cheaper means of taking care of themselves before their problems became emergencies.
ER visits cost a fortune. Housing someone in prison for selling drugs costs a fortune. Beggers even make $20 an hour and imagine all the money you would save going to the grocery store and not having to give beggars anything.
I was guessing a cheaper alternative would be to give some people money like Finland from the start.
You might say: well if word got out that homeless people were getting free money, nobody would work.
I think that's a myth that some politicians perpetuate.
There are so many job seekers and I think most people are good people, trying to do the right thing, not trying to exploit any system.
I was looking at secretary jobs and there were like 55 applications for one single secretary job. Most people like the dignity, respect, and independence you get from earning your own money.
I don't like the idea of the government redistributing money, in either direction.
That was what was so absurd about the bank bailouts. They should have let the banks fail and used the billions to cover the insured deposits. Now we have banks that are "too big to bail"
Homelessness is not a crime. Nobody is doing time for being homeless.
Often homeless people end up criminals, though, to desperation or stupidity or mental illness.
And I do believe it is a crime in some places.
You're not allowed to be homeless.
But there are a lot of homeless people who the police just pass by.
Poor working households would have a significantly more negative income tax than they currently have, many would make a sizable net-income off of the proposed system - lifting them up out of poverty or near-poverty conditions.
Poor working households would have a significantly more negative income tax than they currently have, many would make a sizable net-income off of the proposed system - lifting them up out of poverty or near-poverty conditions.
The government can't even sort out the crumbling infrastructure. Instead of fixing our horrible roads and bridges, here in SoCal, they've chosen to spend billions on a bullet train through earthquake riddled mountains.
Often homeless people end up criminals, though, to desperation or stupidity or mental illness.
And I do believe it is a crime in some places.
You're not allowed to be homeless.
But there are a lot of homeless people who the police just pass by.
Agreed, it is usually attributed to mental illness. Something that will not be remedied by giving them money.
Giving druggies and drunks money will not get them in a home either.
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