we've always said, it's way better to let a few rich people get a benefit than put in the infrastructure to means-test it, because the latter will always both cost more and exclude people who actually need the program.
(Also giving everyone a benefit makes it much harder to characterize as "welfare" and therefore politically more challenging to gut when conservatives get into power.)
Dana Fried /
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2024-09-16 20:25:19
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