Remember when, during the pandemic, giving free school lunches to everyone in the US actually costed less than the usual system?
The US system is build around punishing the poor. In EU there is less punishment but it could still be better. I’d love a reasonable universal basic income proposal. I’m just too jaded to think it will ever happen, but I’d love it and 100% support it. Even if I don’t need it and my taxes would likely get higher.
Slightly unrelated: I love paying taxes and seeing how that improves the society as a whole. My taxes go to schools, hospitals, roads, social programs, supporting a wide variety of association… I am glad to pay for all of it.
In Canada the government was providing something like close to $3000 per person during the pandemic if they had lost their job or were unable to work due to covid on the condition you pay it back. many people ripped off the program, many people didn’t pay it back, government has kinda been mute on the whole thing since then. Guy I knew got it twice and could argue he didn’t need it (he was a POS). never paid it back, didn’t hear a peep from the government and still hasn’t. continues to pay his taxes annnnnnd nothing, no one has ever come calling to collect.
Another thing is during the pandemic we were putting homeless individuals in hotel rooms for months on end. we paid for it. we “suddenly” were able to find them housing. People were working from home remember that? nothing collapsed, companies continued doing well. Then suddenly the pandemic ends and now for whatever reason we no longer have housing for the homeless, we can no longer put them in those hotel rooms, and we’re forcing people to return to work. We no longer have money for anything?
it’s not that we didn’t learn anything, the people sure as fuck did learn something, It’s just that there’s more money to be made by the powers that be going back to the “old ways”.
Remember when, during the pandemic, giving free school lunches to everyone in the US actually costed less than the usual system?
The US system is build around punishing the poor. In EU there is less punishment but it could still be better. I’d love a reasonable universal basic income proposal. I’m just too jaded to think it will ever happen, but I’d love it and 100% support it. Even if I don’t need it and my taxes would likely get higher.
Slightly unrelated: I love paying taxes and seeing how that improves the society as a whole. My taxes go to schools, hospitals, roads, social programs, supporting a wide variety of association… I am glad to pay for all of it.
In Canada the government was providing something like close to $3000 per person during the pandemic if they had lost their job or were unable to work due to covid on the condition you pay it back. many people ripped off the program, many people didn’t pay it back, government has kinda been mute on the whole thing since then. Guy I knew got it twice and could argue he didn’t need it (he was a POS). never paid it back, didn’t hear a peep from the government and still hasn’t. continues to pay his taxes annnnnnd nothing, no one has ever come calling to collect.
Another thing is during the pandemic we were putting homeless individuals in hotel rooms for months on end. we paid for it. we “suddenly” were able to find them housing. People were working from home remember that? nothing collapsed, companies continued doing well. Then suddenly the pandemic ends and now for whatever reason we no longer have housing for the homeless, we can no longer put them in those hotel rooms, and we’re forcing people to return to work. We no longer have money for anything?
it’s not that we didn’t learn anything, the people sure as fuck did learn something, It’s just that there’s more money to be made by the powers that be going back to the “old ways”.