FOR HONOR AND GLORY <| sep |> but the reduced need to spend a lot of that tax money on things like petty crime and welfareBasic Income won ' t stop crime . Even if we assume that all crime is economically motivated 20 ' 000 a year is still a pittance , so the unemployed will still have economic motive to rob . And so much crime isn ' t economically motivated . The second part of the argument is a pretty common one and it doesn ' t make a lick of sense . Dramatically increasing welfare won ' t actually save money on welfare . You ' d cut away some administrative overhead , but that ' s a tiny fraction of welfare spending . rBasicIncome if you want to read more from both sidesI ' m sure posts arguing against Basic Income will go down just swimmingly over there .