Class warfare is when there’s a limit to what poor & disabled people can earn before losing their benefits, but no limit to what billionaires can hoard while avoiding taxes.

We must reject the twisted idea that money incentivizes the rich but poverty incentivizes the poor.

@QasimRashid if there wasn't a means test rich people would hoard the benefits too

@joe @QasimRashid Blocking rich people from getting the same amount of money per person as poor people is counterproductive, and is generally more expensive than just handing out the money. The amount of money that is a lot to a poor person is not a lot for a rich person, and there are few rich people.

The hassle of applying for money is a burden on poor people, though, and therefore a punishment for being poor, a punishment that is bigger the more complicated you make it.

@ahltorp @joe @QasimRashid And this is why all benefits should be universal. It is cheaper and more efficient to tax it back from the rich than to ration it to the poor.

#UniversalBasicIncome