I saw somewhere else in the comments a story about a disabled woman being kicked off UC because she put some of her disability payments into savings and crossed some threshhold.
This presumably means that some of my taxes went into someone auditing her bank acounts, going "yup that's too much money", then into all the paperwork involved in kicking her out, followed by a few months later all of the paperwork and auditing of her re-applying for UC once her savings ran out.
Obviously we would have saved a bunch of money by someone auditing her case, saying "yup still not got any legs" and moving on, but should we be paying for that in the first place?
I don't like the idea of the government looking into my personal affairs or deciding how I should be spending my time. Obviously they don't at the moment since I have a very nice job but what if I got hit by a car on my way to work?
If some kind of universal income lets us keep the government's nose out of our collective businesses and the cost of that is Amazon has to pay more tax or whatever I don't really see the problem.
Maybe a few wasters just live off the money and play games all day but they were probably going to do that anyway. Most people like having something to do in my experience...
This presumably means that some of my taxes went into someone auditing her bank acounts, going "yup that's too much money", then into all the paperwork involved in kicking her out, followed by a few months later all of the paperwork and auditing of her re-applying for UC once her savings ran out.
Obviously we would have saved a bunch of money by someone auditing her case, saying "yup still not got any legs" and moving on, but should we be paying for that in the first place?
I don't like the idea of the government looking into my personal affairs or deciding how I should be spending my time. Obviously they don't at the moment since I have a very nice job but what if I got hit by a car on my way to work?
If some kind of universal income lets us keep the government's nose out of our collective businesses and the cost of that is Amazon has to pay more tax or whatever I don't really see the problem.
Maybe a few wasters just live off the money and play games all day but they were probably going to do that anyway. Most people like having something to do in my experience...