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Re:Time for a Guaranteed Basic Income? by strictnein on Saturday January 23, 2016 @02:59PM (#10959798)
Answers like this would make sense if we didn't already spend billions and billions a year to address those exact topics, or if I was saying we shouldn't have any welfare programs at all.
Re:Time for a Guaranteed Basic Income? by AnthonyMouse on Saturday January 23, 2016 @07:21PM (#10960822)
> Answers like this would make sense if we didn't already spend billions and billions a year to address those exact topics, or if I was saying we shouldn't have any welfare programs at all.

But then your argument doesn't make any sense because it applies more to means-tested programs than UBI, because working can't cause you to lose the UBI.