Why Republicans are fighting the basic-income programs many cities and states are adopting: 'Is money a birthright now?' - eviltoast
  • Asafum@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    Its selfish bullshit. Their response would be one of a handful:

    “Why should I work if the government will just give me everything for free!?”

    “Why should I have to pay for lazy people who made bad decisions!?”

    “Why does the government not understand debt!? They’re going to bankrupt us!”

    They strongly believe in survival of the fittest. Either you become wealthy or everything you did was your fault and a mistake and you should die if you can’t afford life. The only salvation you should get (I almost used the word deserve, which they 100% would argue you don’t deserve.) would be salvation dolled out by a charity that people volunteered to give of their own desire.

    Of course the charities never have nearly enough money to accomplish this which they fully understand but don’t care one iota about. It’s almost entirely selfishness on their part, mixed in with a heaping dose of ignorance.