It's the same argument the tory right uses just framed differently. "but what if the undeserving poor get a pittance they haven't earned?!"
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This is the argument for means testing and against universal benefits. You can remove the means test if you make the benefit taxable!
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Exactly. I'm sure they know this, but have been conditioned not to say anything that might not appeal to the mythical rump of Mail readers who might vote for them.
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you missed step 1) give wealthy man in top hat 500 million pounds 2) worry about the shiny pound coin
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Unrelated but where can I buy a top hat
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Also: too thick to understand the benefits of universality, and too thick too thick to understand that privatising/marketising a public service has other effects too: on the staff and on the service itself
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Imagine a place in which everyone got a UBI and (gasp) everyone paid the tax they’re supposed to.
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Hey now! Dont be coming here with your sensible suggestions and logical ideas! This is twitter!

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If one were somehow too wealthy to accept a smidge of public assistance & merely think of it as a wee tax rebate, I submit that person should be too wealthy to avoid Madame la Guillotine. Framing it such might lead a few toffs to admit that getting shiny pound coins isn't so bad,
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And they accuse US of the politics of envy...?
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Of course we know envy has nothing to do with it for them. Its a characteristic misreading of the 'working classes' as petty and small minded. They think it looks bad, and as usual, they can't be arsed to explain it.
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