A Texas state lawmaker believes that a universal basic income program pushed at the county level violates the state constitution.
"We just can’t hand out money like popcorn on street corners to people that walk by," Republican State Sen. Paul Bettencourt told Fox News Digital .
"If you advertise what’s clearly a no-strings universal basic income, and you do a lottery by zip codes, I’m very concerned that that is just fundamentally violating the gift clause of the [Texas] Constitution, which says the state can’t give money with no strings attached."The program Bettencourt is referring to is a guaranteed income program […]
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