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You're suggesting that the government pay the rent for all 90% functional adults? How are you going to vet who qualifies for this? "Mild" mental illness when the incentive is totally free rent seems like an attractive proposition for to encourage a deluge of incredibly hard to falsify applicants.


What I'm hearing is "just implement UBI so we don't have to worry about fraud and waste time and money on administration"




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