This assumes that all those who now don’t work will somehow acquire the Protestant Work Ethic and show up on time everyday and work for 8 hours.
50% of taxpayers like this idea? Then those idiots can pay for 100% of this crappola!
This. Anybody who doesn't have a job has a reason for not having a job. And it's usually that it's more profitable or beneficial to not work. The other problem with this idea is that they are going to do "works programs" which usually means manual, low-skilled labor jobs, and those not working generally find themselves "above" such indignity. So, the next step is to declare that requiring minorities to "be forced" to "demean themselves" in such types of "unfulfilling" employment for their guaranteed money is racist. Then, they just move to handing out a minimum living allowance to everyone, regardless whether they work or not. Yeah, this is going to succeed...
People in the gov't program - usually minorities - were assigned to work at various employers. The employers were assigned to pay them, at the point of a gun.
The "employees" only showed up at work once a week to pick up their checks.
Fiction? Sure. But not too far from this version of reality, should it pass...