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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry it’s the culture.

You can’t fix them until you fix that.  [/quote]

UBI would fix it. [b]It would teach responsibility.[/b][/quote]

It would do the exact opposite. DC basically already has UBI with all the free housing, free food, free childcare, free spending money, plus no more policing of antisocial behavior. The skyrocketing violent crime speaks for itself.[/quote]

Oh, you misunderstood. It would teach the government and upper class responsibility. [/quote]

You don't make any sense. Bottom line, all the free handouts and leniency is why DC has become such a cesspool of violent crime and vagrancy. People need to take responsibility for their own actions.[/quote]

The government is responsible for all its citizens, not just the citizens and businesses that contribute to election campaigns. The government needs to backstop citizens from cradle to grave, or we will never have a truly free society. Currently, citizens are held in bondage by the capitalist oligarchy. Why do you want to keep perpetuating the same system that has resulted in our current society?[/quote]Wrong. The government is not responsible for its citizens at all. It's responsibility is to "establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, [b]promote the general Welfare[/b], and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity". That's the US Constitution btw. Nothing in there about backstopping citizens cradle to grave.[/quote]

Did you read the bolded?  The framers wrote that and left it intentionally broad, and it encompasses a whole range of thing of benefit to the nation as a whole, such as schools and education, infrastructure, social programs and so on.  Hamilton argued that broad interpretation which viewed spending as an enumerated power Congress could exercise independently to benefit the general welfare, such as to assist national needs in agriculture or education, provided that the spending is general in nature and does not favor any specific portion of the country over any other and that Hamiltonian view is what has generally been upheld in the courts.

https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/to-promote-the-general-welfare/

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