Perhaps strain would be a better word than drain - it would still be a short-mid term financial burden to take even a tiny fraction of the sane population from the US, it’s a big country.
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Soup@lemmy.world 5 hours agoNot if you stayed, then it’s an investment. Money doesn’t just disappear when goes to poor people, they use it to buy things like food and stuff. It would only be a financial drain if you were sending that money back home.
The North American mind cannot comprehend the benefits of supporting the poor.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
And a hell of a good one. Adults will have already passed through education, so we would save on that part.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I get that, the initial investment would be pretty significant.
I’m not against it of course, I just think it’s necessary to understand the risks of any gamble.
slothrop@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
UBI should be ubiquitous.
UBI = Universal Basic Income
bigboitricky@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Amazing Americans say with their full chest this is socialism