Universal Basic Income

[BananaStand]

You can always run a regression back to a point where a person has a truly harder time than he should when viewed in isolation. However, organizing society around those instances is no way to organize society.

A healthy society organizes around the principles that the individual, the family, the friends, and the community (the church) help those who have the worst of dire conditions. Since the last several decades has been seeing drastic fall in this idea, some people find themselves knocked down with a harder time of getting back up than they otherwise would. The government attempting to solve this problem has just made things worse. The real solution is probably to return to what humans are entirely evolved for: championing the family and championing the religion and its community.

See the bolded. That is NOT what welfare attempts to do in America. So I'm not sure the rest is applicable.

Welfare is the side effect of a political party that has chosen a philosophy of redistribution. Whether that redistribution is a good idea, whether it's the best option, or whether it's even needed at all is not something that's up for debate. Successful execution of this plan results in measurable financial benefits for the party's voting base.

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See the bolded. That is NOT what welfare attempts to do in America. So I'm not sure the rest is applicable

I know that's not what it currently does or has ever done, but the idea that it is to help those worst off is probably the main reason why people support it.

[BananaStand]

but the idea that it is to help those worst off is probably the main reason why people support it out loud.

Fixed your post by adding the bolded