Comment on A Universal Basic Income Is Being Considered by Canada's Government
wombatula@lemm.ee 11 months agoNo, it is not an excuse to give money to everyone, it’s a literal fact.
Basing it on tax returns costs money, paying someone to approve or deny claims costs money, paying for a system that checks tax returns costs money, figuring out what exact amount of money constitutes “poor” costs money, EVERYTHING COSTS MONEY. Do you not understand how much money bureaucracy costs?
Your only concern here is keeping money away from rich people, and you are ignoring basic facts and making things up to obscure that. I am not a fan of rich people myself, but you are literally twisting the truth to justify not letting rich people get money and it’s really quite silly.
Bonehead@kbin.social 11 months ago
Again, we can make it work any way we want. It doesn't have to be difficult. There doesn't need to be a lot of bureaucracy. We can just give poor people money. That's it. Just give poor people money. It shouldn't be this difficult. It shouldn't require giving everyone money just because a few poor people were given money. We can really make it work if we truly want to. But it'll never work as long as people want to make sure everyone gets money. Not everyone needs money.
All this talk about the cost of bureaucracy is simply a distraction. Just give poor people money...
wombatula@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Ok so you say it’s not difficult, please enlighten me and explain the system you would use.
Please, you’re the expert here apparently, detail the simple system without bureaucracy that you would use to give ONLY poor people money.
Bonehead@kbin.social 11 months ago
We aren't the ones that need to design the system. There are people already in government who are responsible for that. We just need to support the ones that are willing to create a fair system that just gives poor people money without the need to jump through a million hoops and without the need to give people that already have money even more money. That's it. That's our responsibility. Sitting here complaining that bureaucracy costs money and we can't do it unless we give money to rich people too isn't helping.
wombatula@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I am literally quoting experts whose job it is to design the system, if you did even the most basic research into UBI you would realize the reason it works is BECAUSE it cuts out the bureaucracy, that is the greatest cost of any welfare system (like I already said!) and because there are more poor people than there are rich people, it’s pretty simple math to understand that it’s cheaper and more efficient to just give EVERYONE money with minimal oversight. More efficiency = more money to poor people, faster.
I am not “sitting here complaining” I am stating the most basic facts about UBI, while you just keep saying “give poor people money, don’t give rich people money” over and over with no understanding of the actual mechanisms involved. You literally said in your post “gives poor people money without the need to jump through a million hoops” THAT IS THE BUREAUCRACY! You are so dedicated to not letting “rich people” (whatever the fuck that means to you) money that you are against the most efficient system ever devised to give poor people money, do you not understand how ridiculous that is? Ever heard the term “cutting off the nose to spite the face”?
You just said you want to create a fair system, UBI is that fair system, but you refuse to accept it because oh no some rich people might get an amount of money that is meaningless to them. You have allowed your hatred to consume you, and blind you to everything you want to happen.
Your responsibility is to be informed about things that you discuss, and not to spout useless drivel and argue without any idea what you are arguing for.
My responsibility is to combat disinformation from people like you, and having done so I will stop trying to engage an unarmed opponent in a battle of wits.