Majorly bogus "study."
The money was given, “no questions asked,” but we somehow know how they spent the money.
Majorly bogus “study.”
That is the first thing that went through my mind. The second was maybe they did a survey after, and the people all told them what they wanted to hear. I mean, whose going to say that they blew it on drugs? Even more likely, they spent the universal income on appropriate stuff, and used the rest of their resources on drugs.
I wish they would try another approach. Instead of Universal income, they try UNIVERSAL JOBS with Universal income. You work, you get housing, medical care, and food as a minimum for 40 hours a week. Oh wait......you say if they did that they would already have that.....I guess it’s pointless then.
Welfare can only provide so much. These people need jobs.
Money is fungible, isn’t it.
Nuff said.
This is the biggest bunch of BS ever printed!!! GIVE ME A DAMN BREAK!!!
They’re “homeless” people. Here in TN, our news critters now say, “the un-housed”. 😏
That’s not income, it’s giving away money for nothing.
How many local stores, do you know of, which have been charged and convicted of buying welfare cards?!?
I can name twenty such places, in six different cities, in the State of Texas in the last 12 months!! And those are just the ones off the top of my head (these are the ones I have seen news stories covering welfare fraud)!!
This study is your typical “feel good” study...the foregone conclusions were going to line up perfectly with the intended results! This is them NOT including data, to make their data look “accurate”!
The only way to track spending would be with some sort of EBT card. So the government knows what was bought, but that’s it. Welfare types buy normal everyday things with their EBT card and then sell it for a fraction of the cost. The cash is then used to feed their drug habit. To be fair, these welfare types could also be using the EBT card to buy actual necessities while using their other sources of income to buy their drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. $750 doesn’t go very far at the grocery store when you have a bunch of mouths to feed. These people are experts at gaming the system and the people running the program are either idealistic or they know the truth and don’t care.
From where did this money originate, a freewill offering by a generous donor?
Taxpayers have income removed from their incomes -- no questions tolerated.
I look at the bright side. Those who like to hand out other people's money to the homeless, especially like candy -- no questions asked -- can expect to end up homeless in hell -- no questions tolerated.
Wait, what kinda housing were these people able to afford for $750 a month in EITHER LA or SanFran?
So, I have mixed emotions about this. True, probably 1/2 of recipients of this will blow the money on drugs, booze, smokes and other crap. The other half will actually benefit from it, in a good way.
Our country hates poor people, and wants them to stay poor, so that the rich can feed off them, and so that the Dems can get their vote. The old keep them barefoot and pregnant thingy.
Our minimum wage laws are a joke, and even worse because so many jobs are structured to be part-time, to avoid paying health insurance benefits. Our schools are a sham, and colleges far too expensive because of the student loan scam. Health insurance is pathetic, and we should have national health care like other countries. (I have not heard of any doctors starving to death in France, or Australia.)
Everything is rigged against the poor and middle classes. The unemployed pay taxes on unemployment, but not the welfare class on their benefits. And although our major companies screw Americans by outsourcing production to other countries, one could hardly blame them due to the crappy employees in this country. Plus, they have to meet their competition in the marketplace, so they must compete cheaply.
So, when the poor get a few bucks here and there, I can not get too angry about it.
I keep waiting for the IRS to tax the basic income.
Eventually “they” will run out of other peoples money to give away...
The original recipient of the card sells it at one fourth its value, and uses the cash to support their vices for a couple of days. The dealer sells the card to someone who takes life a little more seriously; they’ll pay half price. That’s not the person the study thinks, but that’s the use that gets tracked. Flawed study.
Homeless people in Los Angeles will protest they only get $625.00 a month.
Cards like that are always for sale so the original holder can get cash for drugs.
Those homeless people are reported to be spending $150 per month on rent. Where? Obviously, they’re not surviving on $750 per month.
I read this story of fantasy fulfillment. It just repeats over and over that the donees’ reports say that they were more likely to get nearer to self sufficiency, blah, blah, blah... The lack of SPECIFIC data to back all that up is danced around like the Nutcracker Suite.
Were the tent camps removed? Did drug use and overdoes go down? Crime? Was there a measurable drop in sidewalk sh!t? Did any of them succeed in getting jobs? We don’t know; the article just says all this shows is that UBI works.