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Look, I think this is a good idea. We have something vaguely similar here (England) called "Income Support" but it's on a much, much smaller scale. I just think that, in a nation where you can't even talk about universal healthcare without someone screaming "socialism" (like that's something to be afraid of), you'd have a real problem selling it to the public. I agree that the stuff about "freeloaders" is just old fears and prejudices but I also have a fairly low opinion of the general public and I know that massive portions of the public, maybe even most of the public, still believe them.
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