Some worry guaranteed income programs will ‘buy votes,’ disincentivize work – Center Square

Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski worries such programs at taxpayer expense will do more harm than good. “People should be incentivized to go look for work, not to not look for work. This kind of thing I think is destructive, it puts people out of the workforce if they become reliant on it.”
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Pat S.
2 years ago

“It is a small program in a specific locale to test the outcomes of delivering guaranteed income …”

  • How will the test be conducted?
  • What standards will they test?
  • How will baselines be established?
  • How will they determine the efficacy of this latest handout?
  • Who will handle the efficacy assessment?
  • What does ‘success’ look like?

Inquiring minds want to know!

This program has all the earmarks of social engineering gone wrong.

The old proverb: Give a fish to a person and s/he eats for a day; teach that person to fish and s/he eats for a lifetime.

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