The 79th/Biscayne street corner worker in Miami (in the winters of the 1990s) would head up to Chicago when it got too hot. He looked a mess, but in later years he had a Jack Russel terrier with him that looked like it never missed a meal or a grooming appointment. There were many of these “Snowbird street people” who would show up every fall - and some of them also did petty crime like stealing from cars, etc. It was too obvious: every year at the same time they show up, the break ins start again.
Then, on the flip side, some of those people you see genuinely can’t find any other way to get their next meal, or afford a safe place to sleep for the night.
And I don’t want to be making the judgement call there at the red light who is who. I would much rather have a system of UBI that means NONE OF THEM have a reason to be there. I’d pay taxes for that.
The 79th/Biscayne street corner worker in Miami (in the winters of the 1990s) would head up to Chicago when it got too hot. He looked a mess, but in later years he had a Jack Russel terrier with him that looked like it never missed a meal or a grooming appointment. There were many of these “Snowbird street people” who would show up every fall - and some of them also did petty crime like stealing from cars, etc. It was too obvious: every year at the same time they show up, the break ins start again.
Then, on the flip side, some of those people you see genuinely can’t find any other way to get their next meal, or afford a safe place to sleep for the night.
And I don’t want to be making the judgement call there at the red light who is who. I would much rather have a system of UBI that means NONE OF THEM have a reason to be there. I’d pay taxes for that.