What do you think about the proposal (I upped amount) to erase the costly welfare administrative system...?

Question

...eliminate cash grants, food stamps, rents, emergency grants, medicaid, etc., and giving every U.S. citizen over 18 years of age $300 or so every week, with each person's health insurance payment being an automatic deduction?

It would reduce housing development / habitat destruction, as people would double up if they didn't have any other income. It would reduce overpopulation, as kids would not receive payment (or the adults who bear them).

Instead of giving billions to administering welfare, give it to every citizen over 18. What do you think?

Adults would receive $300 each, but would receive no additional payment for children.

Answer 1

I think that anything to get people to do something instead of sitting around popping out kids so they don't have to work and get more money for each one is do-able

Answer 2

So essentially you are saying to give everyone weekly the equivalent of a 40 hour work week at $7.50/hour. For round numbers sake, let's say the adult population of the U.S. is 237 million. That's $71.1 Billion dollars a week to every U.S. citizen, and roughly $3.697 Trillion dollars a year. Are you kidding me? The figures I used are rounded down and only includes those 20 or older.

Think welfare and food stamps should definitely be done away with in their current form (both are unconstitutional by the way.)

Don't agree with the tax payback for having children, you decided to have them ... why should you get money back at the end of the year? If someone had an accidental pregnancy (non-rape), guess they should've been more careful or abstinent. I look forward to having children, but don't think that means I deserve a tax break because of it.

FEMA, one of the biggest frauds ever devised and completely unconstitutional. How much of that money has already been siphoned off and wasted compared to the money that is "rebuilding" those affected by Katrina.

I do appreciate the idea, but I don't think it is reasonable.

As long as rampant greed runs through our entire government from top to bottom, we are going to keep having a huge budget deficit. I'm sure that somewhere there are some non-corrupted politicians. Big business, political encumbancy, and raw greed rule the roost.

Answer 3

Not much! My rent is more than that! And EVERY citizen over 18 sure doesn't need it as some are making 26.4 MILLION a year. They already screwed us out of enough money. Just another way to screw us out of more!

Our money isn't going into welfare for people. It is going into welfare for the Rich and corporations!

Our war in Iraq has made 600 new millionaires, while Bush is vetoing children's health care while he asks for BILLIONS MORE for corporate welfare and Iraq!

Let's take care of our own and quit pointing fingers and pretending those on assistance can do anything about it. Most are children, and they can't but will work, the elderly, who have already worked and the disabled who can't work.

There is no such thing as welfare anyway, and if you don't know that you shouldn't even try to claim to know something about it!

Nice idea, but you have a lot of other things that need fixing first. And whether you know it or not, they have been cutting almost all assistance programs for over 12 years! One-half of those who live in the woods have full time jobs! That's what you need to fix FIRST!

Answer 4

Heres an easier solution just require a drug test for anyone on welfare. Random and at least 3 times a month. Also require them to turn in all recipts for use, also require people to be on birth control until they can support themselves and their kids. Make participating in community gardening and farming a must and elimate food stamps all together.

Answer 5

Good idea but to late! Think if you streamlined how many workers would be laid off that administer these programs. That's why we won't see tax reform or any other big government program changing. There is to much job dependence in those sectors.