I think there's pretty obviously a reasonable debate to be had here about whether this policy is a good idea, and we have one side of that debate quoting news articles and making principled points while the other side accuses them of being "privileged" or "ghoulish" or "ignorant", other than Maritime Q Scout...
Personally I think means testing it is a bad idea simply because it creates a whole other bureaucracy at the front end that will be inefficient, but the way the people I'm agreeing with when I say that are conducting themselves here, I'm almost hesitant to say so.
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