Re:Disabled and out of work for years, but need some side in...
by pessimizer on Monday January 30, 2023 @11:47AM
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Or rather like cutting off someone else's nose to spite people it won't matter much to.
The efforts US politicians go through to make sure that some of the people who have paid a disproportionately large amount of taxes don't get a fraction of them back when they don't need it have been valiant. Considering that you could simply tax them enough to create a universal benefit, effectively refunding part of their own taxes and redistributing the rest, I'd suggest that starving the poor is a goal rather than a side-effect.
We can't give people free college, what if people who could afford college go?
The efforts US politicians go through to make sure that some of the people who have paid a disproportionately large amount of taxes don't get a fraction of them back when they don't need it have been valiant. Considering that you could simply tax them enough to create a universal benefit, effectively refunding part of their own taxes and redistributing the rest, I'd suggest that starving the poor is a goal rather than a side-effect.
We can't give people free college, what if people who could afford college go?