The reason I'm so completely on board is because it eliminates the problem with so many government programs. Red tape. Find a thousand people that live in poverty that you think have at least a small chance of getting out, and give them a cheque every month. That eliminates any need for the government to be involved outside of collecting data which is relatively simple enough.
Nobody is going to go do this with millions of people. You start small. We blow enough money as as country on other useless crap. This seems worth trying at the very least.
Didn't Harper run some kind of program like this? I seem to remember something about housing being provided at low cost or for free to certain people under a federally run program.
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