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But, if you allocate £700 per person including to all those who are extremely wealthy, you are not doing what you say you are! You're merely funding the extremely wealthy who are *already* deliberately impoverishing the population...

We get it, but hear us out. To exclude the wealthy, you'd have to means-test everyone, verify income, track eligibility, build in cliffs. Since the wealthy are a small slice of the population, their share barely moves total cost. The bureaucracy costs more than it saves. Worth it?

No, you know who those extremeky wealthy are: pvt equity, hedge funders, the massive land owners, the MSM owners... Just use a spreadsheet! It's not difficult!

And cliffs are real: means-testing means someone draws an income line. Earn a dollar over it, lose the whole benefit. That punishes people for working more, and someone still has to decide where that line sits, who's "deserving" enough. 'Universal' avoids drawing that line at all.