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If you give them the power to feed you, you give them the power to starve you.

MD is broke and can’t pay its bills.

How can you tell someone else how to make their bed if you don't know how to make your own?

Economics tells us there is no free, only trade offs.

Are those individuals?

This assumes the money is voluntarily given.

On what basis are you determining the value?

The fraud of the government is thinking that without incentive people will still produce the goods and services people want.

The fraud of the government is the fact that they demand your earned income at the end of a barrel and get to spend it on whatever they want without accountability.

The fraud of government is the belief that there is some genie in some government office that can magically allocate all the goods and services without the use of markets, price signals, or voluntary exchange.

So, he should have seen the flaw in his logic in real-time you're saying. Funny.

Subsidies and hand outs are not coming from the capitalist side of our government. No matter the party that is signing the bills.

So, if you give the consumers free money, and take money from the producers, we have more money, and fewer goods... I wonder what that is called?

What guarantee do we have other than politicians will have more money to spend however they please? Where does this blind faith in the benevolent government come from?

Marx's economic theory of value and exploitation requires LTV to be true. OnlyFans and Twitch highlight why value is better explained by subjective demand and scarcity than by labor time.

What goes into 'making sure everyone has food' If that includes forcefully taking from people under the threat of violence in order to give to other people... ...that part feels bad.

What mechanism would be used to allocate the socialized resources? Socializing implies removing or standardizing prices, what will replace the current price signals that broadcast consumer demand? How will we know how many bananas to grow? How many 4 bedroom vs 2 bedrooms?

Even if extra hours would increase their pay, crossing certain thresholds can mean losing government benefits, which reduces the incentive to work more.