The most striking proposals were for the elimination of medical debt for millions of Americans; the “first-ever” ban on price gouging for groceries and food; a cap on prescription drug costs; a $25,000 subsidy for first-time home buyers; and a child tax credit that would provide $6,000 per child to families for the first year of a baby’s life.

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Why not both?

Society benefits from children not growing up in extreme poverty.

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Society benefits from children not growing up in extreme poverty

True, but giving money for free isn’t a proper way of fighting with poverty. The proper way would be introducing reforms that make housing, healthcare and education fundamentally cheaper. That would be effective at fixing the very causes that make people impoverished

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Making things cheaper doesn’t help people in extreme poverty who have no money.

Giving them money does!

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Making things cheaper doesn’t help people in extreme poverty who have no money.

They have no money, because everything they need to live, is expensive!!!

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Investing in our children is not to fight today’s poverty, but tomorrow’s. We need to give all children a good start and the potential to develop into a healthy part of a strong society. The goal is for them to break the cycle of poverty rather than go around again

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True, but giving money for free isn’t a proper way of fighting with poverty.

It literally is. Study after study proves just giving people money with no strings attached gives massive benefits for essentially no net cost.

https://college.unc.edu/2021/03/universal-basic-income/

The fact that you don’t know this proves you either ignore this, or don’t search anything to confirm you’re correct.

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That’s just an opinion, not an argument.

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