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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I was coming here to post just this very thought. I think universal basic income is something that should be explored. I'm rich even by  DCUM standards and would be fine with taxes on this (I'm also fine with the ACA supplemental taxes including on capital gains). I have a child with severe ASD and intellectual disabilities - he may never be able to read or engage at anything greater than a preschool/kindergarten level, so I would hope that supplemental social security would be reserved for him and others who truly need it, like the one young woman with Mosaic downs in the piece. [/quote]

It is, I can say as I have an older child like this who was approved. It's only $700 though which you cannot possibly live on in the Washington area. And if the disabled person  doesn't  pay a fair portion of the household rent with that money (any less you are considered to be getting an in-kind gift from someone ) it is reduced to $450 or so per month.

Ironically you get more if you work for money and then are disabled, but the most severely disabled people cannot work do they get the least (which you cannot possibly live on)[/quote]

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