Make it open. “Here’s $5000. See you next year.”
Of course many will blow thru it
Some people can not be helped.
“Make it open. “Here’s $5000. See you next year.”
Of course many will blow thru it”
Obama: “ And a little “blow” if there was money for it.”
That’s something I’d grudgingly compromise on.
If we’re going to have a welfare system that’s anything other than basic assistance (staple foods, mundane housing, and labor-pool work) for the truly destitute, then I might just settle for a “prebate” aka “guaranteed basic income” of truly basic sustenance just as a matter of eviscerating the insanely constructed bureaucracy which favors systematic abuse and denies the incapable.
That way we don’t have to politicize & argue about “fair share” etc. to the detriment of those who do need aid. I’d rather charity come from individuals and community organizations, but fact is government has institutionalized a takeover thereof.
At some point it all comes down to individual decisions: others might be compelled (not that I agree therewith) to contribute to the welfare of others, but if the recipient blows it then ultimately they must live by their own decisions, lest they be subjugated to the state and compelled to behave as strangers insist.