Like Communism, a lot of things work in theory, but it is always the details that screw things up. eg Drugs dealers etc.
Giving people in poverty money directly into a trust fund type situation will cut out a lot of bureaucracy, but then a few well paid jobs will be out of work and complain (relatively well paid, eg Social Work, Mental Health Nurses etc).
I think there is always a weird assumption in all these utopian writing make is that they assume people are smart.. but honestly the majority of people are not. IQ test is self selecting and there are plenty of proof well BC's cash crop really messes that up.
For a welfare state, we just need to look at
this piece of work in England.
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Originally Posted by Gridlock
B.C. Green Party pitches 'guaranteed livable income' - British Columbia - CBC News
Greens contribute to their spending plans.
You can do a lot of things in a controlled setting, that you can't in a real world, province wide situation.
If you could stop all immigration, from within Canada and outside...then you can say, "we have 50,000 people to feed." If you could have revenues that never fluctuated, then you can say, "we will feed 50,000 people with 50 million a year" Unfortunately, we have neither.
Anyone that wants to add an expense...any expense, will find a way to make it happen. Spending the money isn't the hard part...you just say yes. But when you hit a recession, or an economic collapse, or what have you, then you are now responsible for excess spending-and your budget problems compound.
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