"They'll just raise prices if thy raise the minimum wage."

[No_God]

Here in Maryland minimum wage was increased to $10.10

and it's still not enough to live off of.

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Arguing over minimum wage is a distraction. I consider myself libertarian and would support a universal basic income. I abhor the fact that people are forced into low skill undesirable jobs simply because the alternative is destitution.

I am a libertarian and support a negative income tax(which method of providing a basic universal income).

Ditch food stamps, ditch unemployment, ditch social security, ditch housing assistance, ditch heating assistance, ditch Obama phones.....ditch all of it and the bureaucracy that goes with it. Give poor people money instead.

Liberaltards and conservotards like to run peoples lives and think poor people are second class citizens whose finances need to be managed by the government. Let people be free for God's sake.

I can see that you mean well with your idea but it would never work.

I think its best to put the money into programs to limit the way the money is spent.

There are a TON of responsible people on welfare who have no problem with using money only for food. However, there are a plethora of irresponsible people on welfare too and with out these government guided programs may not use money for food or clothes for their children but for themselves and their vices. It's not a matter of government telling people what to do, it a matter of making sure the money is being used for living.