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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am I crazy for reading this and thinking there should just be a universal basic income? Give this poor family twenty grand a year. Give all the poor families twenty grand. Ridiculous that this woman prays to god for the "right" diagnoses, but she's desperate, uneducated, and broke.

Tax the rich. [/quote]

Yeah, I mean...the Post does a great job of finding these cases where your first reaction might be "cut 'em off!" but then if you think about...what are they going to do without any government assistance at all?  Live in homeless shelters, camp out in free clinics and hospital ERs for pills, maybe turn to dealing drugs, go to jail or die of an OD, lose custody of the children to the state...there is no magic bootstrap-pulling ability that will be unearthed by stopping disability benefits.  If anything, families like this will cost government (and thus society) even MORE without a regulated handout.  Not saying the handouts are administered properly.  But if your reaction to these stories is to get rid of social services, you're not thinking far enough ahead.[/quote]

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