[SoCal Pubbie]

How exactly is adding $6,000 per year supposed to do anything for people at the poverty level living in a place like Stockton? Talk about crumbs!

[KC_for_Freedom]

That is the key question.

Suppose someone is currently making 26,000 a year and in poverty. AIs he making bad choices? We don’t know, I just made him up. But we do wonder whether people will use the extra money, which technically is “extra” money and could be used for investment. Do they use the extra money and just get stoned? or do they start a business and get out of the bottom percentile? And if we learn who uses the “gift” wisely we can direct the safety net in more appropriate directions in the future.

I hope they get some useful data, my guess is that most people will get a little benefit but not make any major change in their lifestyle. So it will end up with a negative effect of not encouraging a work ethic and leaving the recipients in poverty. But I don’t know.

[fr_freak]

How exactly is adding $6,000 per year supposed to do anything for people at the poverty level living in a place like Stockton? Talk about crumbs!

That's just the cash. Most of these people are probably living in Section 8 or public housing, and receive free medical care, and, given that this is Stockton, I'd guess that somewhere around half of them will be earning unreported income from the Mexican underground economy.

But, either way, this plan is going to fail spectacularly, and only a truly deluded fool without the slightest grasp on reality would attempt something like this.