A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage

Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by Lawtonfogle on Monday April 04, 2016 @04:44PM (#11425463)

I don't much care where people spend their own money. But welfare money isn't the same as their own money.

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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by fucking_tragedy on Monday April 04, 2016 @07:19PM (#11426557)

It is the recipient's money once it's in their name.

Where does this attitude towards how someone spends their income come from? Is it the assumption that someone who receives aid is incompetent? Is it the assumption that you can handle someone else's finances better?

How does disability, illness or losing your job warrant being micromanaged by the state?

UBI proposes to do away with monitoring/restrictions on recipients of such income because it's inefficient and based on the assumption that someone else knows how to allot another's limited funds better than that person.

You are caring hard about how someone spends their pennies and it leaves me here wondering, why? Aren't there bigger fish to fry?

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