“Instead of increasing the deficit and giving handouts, why not just cut taxes and let people keep more of their money?”
No! Who would pay for it? The country would go broke.
That’s same argument against UBI. People can’t be trusted with money!
Then why have a free country much less than a market economy?
What keeps people rational are their core values - not government coercion.
If they have good core values, how they use the money isn’t society’s business.