If we could get rid of welfare, unemployment and food stamps, universal income could probably come out to a similar cost. Also if someone makes more than let's say 12 000 dollars there would be a cutoff of the universal income, this could work? Also everyone could feel safe and free and do stuff they really want and not lose their potential to a brain dead job.
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The whole "Basic Income" idea could work, under certain terms. I'm against it as a whole but it could word. Namely if there's no cutoff, there's no reduction or increase, and it goes to absolutely everyone.
The main appeal is younger kids (I'm 26), as we'd block them from accessing their payments until 18. Now they can pay for college on their own and graduate with no debt, so they can spend more in their early adult lives and get houses/better cars/any consumables sooner and more often. They can also choose to skip college entirely and use their 18 years worth of basic income to start a business, which is healthy as fuck for the economy. Either they succeed and become job creators or they fail and their money was redistributed to services that help people create jobs. On top of this, everyone else who has their shit together collects basic income as pure cash, while those who don't must use it for health insurance, rent assistance, child costs, etc.
Wealth redistribution is shit, but if done right (no loopholes, pure gains, same to everyone), it can have much better results than the current system of "free healthcare" and sponsoring hispanic/black brood mares that many countries currently implement.
