A basic income check? And in two years when inflation catches up to those worthless basic income checks and poverty is WORSE and not better - then what?
Its been said that if you took all the wealth from the rich and gave it to the poor - the rich would have it back within 2 years.
Probably not even that long.
Communists had a solution for that.....kill the rich.
That is more than a theory it has been done in the real world. A Tibetan king, distressed by the disparity between the poor and the rich, ordered that all wealth and property be divided equally amongst the population. It was and one year later those who had been wealthy were wealthy again and those who had been poor were poor again. The king ordered that it be done again. One year later the same result. The king ordered it done a third time and again within a year the rich were rich and the poor were poor again.
He was one of the early Buddhist kings who did this because he wanted to end the suffering of the poor. He learned that people have their own karma which they have to work out for themselves it can't be "fixed" for them. That is the purpose of retelling the story to Buddhist students today.
Whether you believe in karma or not it was proved three times over that it's not possible to end poverty by giving the poor wealth taken from the wealthy.
>A basic income check? And in two years when inflation catches up to those worthless basic income checks and poverty is WORSE and not better - then what?<
Exactly. Does anyone think the higher costs of college, food, health insurance and nursing home prices are not influenced by entitlements to a large segment of the population? Nursing home prices, in particular, are designed to impoverish everyone of even modest means as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
And giving many of the irresponsible blow it on drugs, TVs, alcohol, cigarettes and gambling will come back crying for more, supervised charity like SNAP benefits you can only use for food and Section 8 for housing is not always bad.
The problem with the welfare system is that it is designed to protect single women with children from suffering.
So single women with no job prospects have lots of kids, and lots of immigrants come over with their kids, until the system can't cope with the load, and it collapses.