£100 Per Week for Everyone

[MrMarkyMark]

Free money, sorted

Should we scrap benefits and pay everyone £100 a week? | Politics | The Guardian

[unemployed]

Free money, sorted

Should we scrap benefits and pay everyone £100 a week? | Politics | The Guardian

should pay for a few Ryanair flights for you , or some nailbar sessions.

i got to dublin and back for 2p once

[DimPrawn]

This is helicopter money by another name.

[NotAllThere]

This is helicopter money by another name.

Helicopter money is a one off.

Switzerland is voting on a similar proposal in June - 2500CHF per month per adult resident, a smaller amount per child. The idea is to reduce the size of the benefit system. After a certain point, the money is clawed back via taxation. Since people, at least up to that point, keep what they earn extra, it should reduce benefit dependency. It probably won't be accepted.

[DimPrawn]

Would all the bogus "asylum seekers" get this free money too?

Another leftie idea to attract more unwelcome, unchecked and unnecessary immigration to the land of freebies....

[The Spartan]

I read the article and not once was there any mention of inflation, £100 a week sounds great but if a loaf of bread was to cost £5 it wouldn't go very far.

[DimPrawn]

I read the article and not once was there any mention of inflation, £100 a week sounds great but if a loaf of bread was to cost £5 it wouldn't go very far.

This is why it is another form of helicopter money.

The govt is desparate for price inflation to make the exponential debt mountain to look a little better.

[filthy1980]

if getting rid of all the goevernment departments that are involved in issuing welfare that would at least be one positive

[BrilloPad]

Everyone would need a house first.

[DimPrawn]

Everyone would need a house first.

Why not give everyone a free house?

A bit like the govt divorcing everybody...