Alternate proposal: put ALL “means tested” federal programs into one department. Put a cap on the total amount of aid a family can get. You want a section 8 voucher in an expensive place? Your food stamps or whatever get reduced.
“Alternate proposal: put ALL “means tested” federal programs into one department. Put a cap on the total amount of aid a family can get. You want a section 8 voucher in an expensive place? Your food stamps or whatever get reduced.”
Some British Conservatives have wanted to do that, but I don’t know that they have made much progress.
On this side of the Atlantic, big welfare reforms will go nowhere since fatcats love leaching off the federal government via the “poor”.
It’s best to start small and make progress than dream big and get nowhere.
At that point, you’re just one step from Universal Basic Income.
May as well give everyone a flat poverty-line check; those earning enough net $0, those not get assistance to use as they see fit.
...oh, right, a significant fraction will squander it, then demand more - while teaching a generation to live solely off the state, and completely wipe out any notion of work.