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To filter that, mandatory rehabilitation would be needed to ensure UBI would be in the right hands
Want the money? Get help. Otherwise we just can't trust you because of your past reckless history.
Should a single cent ever go to porn, alcohol, drugs or gambling. Well, they better enjoy that check because it will be their last.
D'awww, people don't like the concepts of accountability and responsibility. Awwwww. Boo hoo, we need regulation of some sort so money isn't being pissed away on people who waste it on stupid shit like I had mentioned.
Wouldn't this approach require a massive bureaucracy for enforcement?
As a simple example, let's say I earn $100 at my job and take in another $100 from UBI. I now have $200 in my bank account. Once it's in my account, $1 is $1. If I turn around and spend $10 on the devil's lettuce and porn (quite the bargain if you ask me) how is the government going to prove it's UBI dollars I'm spending? I can think of 3 possible solutions and they all have serious potential problems:
In my opinion, UBI should be given without strings attached. Even ignoring the moral questions around controlling how people spend their funds, trying to do any of the above would result in massive overhead from having to create and administer these new controls, possibly exceeding the loss coming from a small minority who would possibly misuse the funds, or it just gives the government way too much control. This could actually serve to entrench inequality and disenfranchisement rather than providing a way to ease them.
That's some Reagan speech rage bait NGL. What you wrote is eerily similar to what Trump and Republicans are pushing against homeless and "mentally ill" people.
Also, after all we've been through, I'd let people do drugs and porn with their money. Fuck it, we're all hurt and traumatized. I'm not going to funnel broken people into the psychiatry complex. Just do a bit of research into mental hospitals in the present-day USA to see why this loaded "get help" is a really dangerous demand.