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The entire idea behind the basic income is to stop trying to make distinctions between the deserving poor and the undeserving poor and to get rid of the entire
by bradleyjg 12y ago
The entire idea behind the basic income is to stop trying to make distinctions between the deserving poor and the undeserving poor and to get rid of the entire gate-keeping infrastructure. Keep the existing cobweb of special purpose programs and you've destroyed a major point of the exercise.
If the BI is too low for disabled people, then it is too low.
- aninhumer 12y ago>If the BI is too low for disabled people, then it is too low. Whatever level you set it at, disabled people will get less money than able-bodied people on average, though no fault of their own. I don't think that's fair however you frame it.
- jnbiche 12y ago> The entire idea behind the basic income is to stop trying to make distinctions between the deserving poor and the undeserving poor and to get rid of the entire gate-keeping infrastructure Bingo. Well, it's not the entire idea, but it's definitely a very compelling idea.