If you have a UBI then you don't have to buy cheese. You can buy beans, pasta, carrots, potatoes, rice, bananas, it's your choice.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2014/12/...
...earning $10,000 a year (which was about half the federal poverty level that year)...
The state with the highest total value of welfare benefits was Hawaii, at $49,175. The lowest was Mississippi, at $16,984. Welfare packages in only 10 states, plus Washington, D.C., exceeded Grothman’s threshold of $35,000.
Note, that's an article showing that a representative was exaggerating how much welfare recipients receive; those are the numbers refuting his claim.
Anything different just doesn't make sense in my opinion.
You also seem to discard the value of work (on a 10 hr workweek perhaps)
One way to defend against the welfare queen argument might be to recognize that there are economies of scale in child-rearing, and pay out adult/2 for the first child, adult/4 for the second child, etc, never going above one whole adult worth of BMI income no matter how many children you have.
WRT welfare queens, now it would make sense to have family intact.
You are kinda ignorant, your food expenses will be less than $1 a day if you only buy cheap food like that. I've lived on less than $1k a month most of my life, totally doable, you can buy good healthy food for around $4 a day if you cook yourself.
You won't have a choice between all the different things you have to choose from?
> Go break down the budget at $1k a month. You'll find that people on government welfare often already live better than that.
And the same people are completely screwed if they want to do one dollar better than that because as soon as they get a job most of the benefits evaporate. Which is why they stay unemployed.
They can make all your savings disappear for a clerical error, for starters, and you are stretched on time to stay in lines to make things right.