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Re:The Myth of Welfare’s Corrupting Influence on the Poor by icebraining on Sunday October 25, 2015 @03:16PM (#10447968)
The wealthy will, in effect, receive nothing, as their taxes will increase more than they will receive from UBI.

Yes, but what about the working/low-middle class who currently mostly doesn't pay for nor receive welfare? That's money that could be allocated for the actual poor.

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Re:The Myth of Welfare’s Corrupting Influence on the Poor by XorNot on Sunday October 25, 2015 @04:53PM (#10448380)
The point is that you spend more money trying to do this, and help less people, then just not worrying about it. Attempts at identifying the truly needy end up mostly excluding them and making the aid less helpful overall.
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Re:The Myth of Welfare’s Corrupting Influence on the Poor by ChrisLomont on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @10:33AM (#10464650)
>The point is that you spend more money trying to do this, and help less people, then just not worrying about it.

People keep repeating this. Go ahead and give us the actual numbers involved in your claims to back it up, since it fails even the most basic of smell tests.

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