Re: Mixed feelings
are Starbucks/beer/cigarettes/Sky TV essentials or luxuries?
Luxuries. Essentials are pretty much shelter (basic housing and power) and enough food to survive. Anything else is a luxury which should be worked for.
I would agree, but many people will insist that they need cigarettes/beer for medical reasons ("It's an addiction") or that TV entertainment is a basic right since they don't have a job...
These issues need to be dealt with no matter how "benefits" are dished out.
Indeed, but then you enter the whole area of eligibility, and "means testing", so it's no longer a flat rate income, but "welfare benefits", and if people can get them in addition to a basic income it's no different to what we have today, it just costs more.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
