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No, money you can spend anywhere. A voucher has to be spent on the thing it's designated for.
by jeffreyrogers 8y ago
No, money you can spend anywhere. A voucher has to be spent on the thing it's designated for.
- pvg 8y agoRight but as I said, the UBI people say 'that's overhead we can get rid of'. That's sort of the point. The thing you're proposing isn't that different from many existing forms of subsidy. In the US, for instance, you can get 'vouchers' specifically for buying food. Or specifically for buying a house.
- jeffreyrogers 8y agoYes, but UBI isn't politically palatable to many people (probably most people). More incremental reforms to the welfare system, like what I proposed, have a greater chance of being politically realizable.
- pvg 8y agoEven incremental reform can be difficult and your reform is not that much less radical than UBI. And has some curious aspects - for example, your vouchers are actually more bureaucratic than SNAP/EBT.