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> Grocery store quality, with the ability to follow the food pyramid. Organic or not? Brand name or not? > Somewhere. Probably shouldn't force them to move to
by marknutter 11y ago
> Grocery store quality, with the ability to follow the food pyramid.
Organic or not? Brand name or not?
> Somewhere. Probably shouldn't force them to move to a different city.
What if they live in a city with extremely high cost of living? It's likely UBI will not allow them to continue living there, so then do they get extra because they want to live in a trendy place?
> Generic brand, 5-10.
What is "Generic brand"? Don't the poor deserve to have the dignity of owning a few brand name outfits?
> Medicaid.
Expanding Medicaid to every single American is going to cost a lot of money, so now you've got two problems; how to pay for UBI and how to pay for expanded Medicaid.
> The exact number is not the important part, so don't fixate on how it's calculated.
But it is. Because as soon as a number is arrived at, there will be people who say it's discriminatory. They will rail against it because people on UBI will be "barely at the poverty line". There's no one-size fits all dollar amount we could ever possibly come up with.
- Dylan16807 11y agoMany brands are cheap, including most food brands, so buying some should not be a problem. I'm not sure what 'dignity' is involved in brand name clothes unless you're in high school. They should be able to afford a room in 95% of cities or some similar number, but perhaps not in the trendiest trend city that's refusing to allow denser construction. Isn't medicaid mostly already expanded? Being barely at the poverty line is fine, because you can get a job on top of it. People can and do complain about the details of every government policy ever. That they would complain about the details of this one is nothing special.