I’ve seen some studies indicating that eliminating the ‘middle-man’, ALL(local, state, federal) welfare departments and programs, and just giving the funding directly to recipients could save significant amounts of money in the long run. Of course how it is spent by said recipients is another matter.......
“Ive seen some studies indicating that eliminating the middle-man, ALL(local, state, federal) welfare departments and programs, and just giving the funding directly to recipients could save significant amounts of money in the long run. Of course how it is spent by said recipients is another matter.......”
That rational reasoning has been around for a long while. Even comes from the “conservative” side and “libertarian” side. Murray is libertarian, btw.
But since both major parties built Big Government, it is doubtful they have any interest in taking it down, except during election year speeches.
An article about “Basic Income”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
Here is even Dr. Milton Friedman
http://www.libertarianism.org/columns/libertarian-case-basic-income
These concepts and intellectual discussions used to be common but of late seem almost non-existent.