re: #78 Sacred Plants

Ive been gaming welfare systems way more intrusive than that for nearly all of my working life, including ones which do what you imagined and worse, and as a professional I tell you the problem is that there is a bureaucracy which attempts to control your behavior in the first place. There is no reason why the government cannot just hand out everyone their share without wanting to know what they do with their time.

Who determines what every person’s “share” is?
And from where (or from whom) would the money be collected to apportion to everyone their “share”?

For “gamers” of the system (not those who genuinely need it) “welfare” means simply that other people are financing your lifestyle. I have no problem with government putting reasonable requirements on the use of that money the government has collected from other people.