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13420184, You sound insane. Why do you feel the need to shroud your arguments Posted by kfine, Wed Jan-13-21 09:27 AM
in namecalling and abuse?
Anyway. I'd say you're making a fair point except for the fact that entitlement programs have always been a target for cuts. It's just a thing conservatives do, even when people aren't receiving UBI. Eg:
https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/presidents-2021-budget-would-cut-food-assistance-for-millions-and-radically
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/16/trump-budget-wic-women-infants-children-nutrition
If anything, a successful UBI program might at least protect families materially from those ongoing efforts - if it could even withstand similar attacks against itself (which it might be better positioned to, as a universally accessible program).
What sells me on the proposal are the revenue sources (especially the idea to tax big tech) and the coverage (addressing one of the most exploited and uncompensated labor sectors in the economy). But can you even articulate actual reasons for hating it, since your claims that UBI is right-wing libertarianism and would unravel the welfare state are dubious at best? lol
Because screaming low-income people selecting their benefit structure = slippery slope to death and mayhem is peak "Next, people will start marrying their dogs!!!" reasoning imho. Do you view covid stimulus checks as similar social policy sabotage?? Because I mean, those are technically UBI transactions. I can see if you just blindly hate Yang and anything he says (which is what I think is really going on here lol), but your position actually makes less and less sense the more one looks into it.
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