The abuse of such systems is usually a rounding error and pretty much irrelevant. In fact trying to prevent abuse often costs more then the abuse itself is costing (for example in public transport the ticket infrastructure costs way more then the losses from people riding for free).
The bigger problem of “universal basic services” is that you end up with a huge bureaucracy deciding for other people what services to provide. This usually results in many needs not catered to and overall sub-standard services due to neglect and perverse incentives on the side of mostly unaccountable bureaucrats.
I support the idea. I think you’ll have some people abusing the system and trying to take advantage but overall, I feel it would be a net good.
As a US citizen though, I feel that single payer healthcare is more important to over all health and well being of society.
The abuse of such systems is usually a rounding error and pretty much irrelevant. In fact trying to prevent abuse often costs more then the abuse itself is costing (for example in public transport the ticket infrastructure costs way more then the losses from people riding for free).
The bigger problem of “universal basic services” is that you end up with a huge bureaucracy deciding for other people what services to provide. This usually results in many needs not catered to and overall sub-standard services due to neglect and perverse incentives on the side of mostly unaccountable bureaucrats.