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specialist · 2024-01-27 · Original thread
> despite paying more than some $200k per homeless

And yet we're told universal basic income is too expensive.

Give People Money [2018] https://www.amazon.com/Give-People-Money-Universal-Revolutio...

Am policy noob, so I don't know how to articulate this properly:

I support whatever social safety net wrap around services people may need.

But I don't support our top-down welfare bureaucracy. When a mere fraction of our spending benefits the actual people in need, wtf are we doing.

How I usually phrase it:

Help people help themselves. Then help those who can't.

(Rant over, thanks for listening.)

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