The money did come from someone else in the first place, where it would almost certainly have been better-spent than on getting wasted. And you may just be enab

The money did come from someone else in the first place, where it would almost certainly have been better-spent than on getting wasted. And you may just be enabling a substance abuse problem to continue and worsen. To put it another way, you end up where you would have without the guaranteed income, except that the alcoholic has done that much more damage to him/herself, and the taxpayers are that much poorer. So I'd say that yeah, in that particular case it does hurt.