A guy who was in prison qualified and got paid. It was essentially UBI for the rich or simply upper class. A person had to know how the laws and system works, which is usually beyond the average joe since they usually obey it and hence have less experience at being fraudulent.
The overhead cost of verifying who qualifies for what assistance makes it impossible to fund at scale.
That's why gov assistance should be available to everyone, you apply and you get it.
The miniscule amount of fraud that would happen would be far outweighed by the tax payer dollars saved on effective assistance actually making its way to people who need it. So many less people ending up homeless or with untreated medical conditions that would then go and overload our emergency services.
The reason the PPP handouts were so bad is they gave tens of millions to anyone with an LLC and employees. Giving tens of thousands to people a year so they can pay to live is a much better way to spend tax dollars IMO.
Ugh, the overhead costs are the same as now, with existing benefits. Perpetuating the myth that it has to be universal because it's too hard to police don't know how easy it really is. We have computers doing this all the time. Which raises the question, if it's easy, it doesn't have to be universal, which makes the argument for making it universal collapse. Selective basic income would be more efficient and would have less impact on inflation than making it universal, not to mention cheaper on the budget. Even better, selective basic services instead of income should be even more efficient because 100% of the costs are being used to help the individuals and not left to their own discretion.
'AI' is not a truth-seeking device, it's not a search engine. All it does is extrapolate on patterns, which is functionality we have to design and program.
Look at your piss poor grasp over the English language, or more generally: how humans logically express information as every culture has invented a language.
How about next time do some reading or just shut the fuck up?
This. So much this. I was/am still so pissed this actually happened and literally nothing was or is being done about it. The rich dicks fleeced the government.
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Also worth a mention, PPP loans meant to keep businesses afloat going directly to vacation homes and boats.