WinterBorn
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equal protection of the law is not a huge change. it is more efficient and will lower costs to employers who will no longer be personally responsible for it.it can't do it better or we would have no homeless problem. correcting for that capital based phenomena is the capital based solution under capitalism.you have nothing but ad hominems.I am not confused at all. Unemployment compensation and welfare are two different programs. The only reason you want unemployment compensation is that it doesn't have a means test. So you can continue to live with your Mom and get paid for doing nothing. The reason unemplyment compensation does not have a means test is because of the restrictions on who collects it. If it becomes financial assistance for anyone without a job (or without an address) there will be some sort of means test, I can guarantee that.
solving for capitalism's natural of unemployment provides for the general welfare through a positive multiplier effect on our economy. increasing market participation will have the effect of helping our economy become more efficient in the process.
Welfare does that just as well, if not better. It provides money to those in need, which a positive multiplier effect on our economy and increases market participation.
Unemployment compensation was never intended to tackle poverty, as such.
The only way unemployment compensation solves homelessness is if you make some huge changes in the way the benefits are delivered. Just make those changes to welfare and the problem will be solved. No need to make the numerous other changes at all.
No it will not be more efficient. In your plan, we would have to revamp the entire unemployment compensation program AND change the way the benefits are delivered. Why do all that when you can just change the way welfare benefits are delivered and solve the same problem. Simpler is better, as you have said. The means test certainly does not bother a homeless person.