Re: Yes ...

Date: 2025-05-28 10:07 am (UTC)
siliconshaman: black cat against the moon (Default)
Therein lies the difference between a Universal Income, and Universal Basic Income. The latter covering just the basics.

The test have shown that a UBI is actually cheaper than the current benefits system, since the administrative overhead (which is typically 30% to 50% of the entire cost of welfare) is so much less.

Basically, you could take the entire budget for social welfare and use that for a UBI scheme, increase what people would receive by 20% over the current system, and still make a saving of 10-20%.

No, what stands in the way is the entrenched idea that 'poors' have to somehow prove they deserve government support, and UBI smacks too much of a free 'handout'.
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