The government should not be paying everyone a stipend, that is a statist, leftist wet dream.
Imagine Democrats every elections promising to raise the stipend as opposed to the greedy, evil Republicans.
When everyone gets a check from the government, liberty is DEAD
Notice the conditional: if we as a society. . .
We’re already in the state where the government is subsidizing enough of the populace for your dire prediction of the left buying elections is realized, but the structure of the state subsidies has yet more drawbacks since “means testing” creates genuine disincentives for getting out of poverty. A universal flat stipend which is not taken away when one works or invests to earn more money is, as Milton Friedman (no leftist he) pointed out, the only income support measure which does not create such perverse incentives. (I’m not saying it should be done, just pointing out what we’re doing now to succor the poor with tax monies is worse.)