I knew you wouldn't get it. Existing UC is not set up to and cannot possibly handle paying out to the millions who would jump on the system and stay there, sucking it dry. The program would have to have new taxes imposed on the general public, new bureaucracies to manage the millions more that would be on the program, and new enforcement. Hint, that means it's a brand new welfare program because it's not UC any more. UC couldn't handle it, and it simply doesn't matter how many times you stomp your feet and repeat that it will. It just won't. As for why anyone would be poor, there are those who stay in MW jobs or refuse to work now and take whatever they can get because they'd rather not have the responsibility that comes with supporting themselves. That's human nature for many people. As for circulation, first you are cutting circulation because you're going to have to impose a new general tax, then you're not going to get the same multiplier as UC because it's not UC any more. You don't seem to realize that taking a trillion out of the economy to get back a few billion in new taxes is not a good trade.Not brand new since it can use existing legal and physical infrastructure through equal protection of the laws. Why would anyone want to be poor forever under Capitalism when they could learn how to do something that could make them rich enough to not need unemployment compensation. And, people circulating capital is a good thing under Capitalism since Capital must circulate to achieve a multiplier effect. Even if it were as You claim, unemployment compensation would still be better than means tested welfare due to a higher multiplier and greater convenience to market participants in our economy.It's a brand new, massive welfare program. Do you still maintain the fantasy that current UC law supports your assertion that it should pay every person the MW for not only not working but never working, forever?Most of that already happens. And there are already income reporting requirements. For example, if you already make the equivalent or more than the minimum wage through passive income you could be considered self-employed. A minor would need to petition for emancipation to be considered an adult. And, there is no immigration clause in our federal Constitution. We have a naturalization clause and that means all foreign nationals in the US should be known to the general Government and federally identified for civil purposes.1. It would not be simple. You would still need means testing. You would, for example, have to prove you are of age, and not over retirement age (have you considered that?). You would have to prove you are a citizen. You would have to prove you are not otherwise employed. All of these require bureaucracy to be enforced.
2. Simply being able to declare you're unemployed and them take you at your word most certainly means MORE incentive to cheat the system, not less, because you could be working a job or jobs and attempt to collect this new welfare payment in addition to the other payments you get.
3. Removing the time limit merely opens to door for those who would stay on it permanently.
Basically, you're creating a brand new, massive welfare program that would have all the same problems and inefficiencies current welfare programs have. You seem to think people are noble and will only take these payments until they are able to work again, but at the same time you destroy your premise by stating that you want to give payments to people who have never worked and never intend to work. You want to pretend a program that temporarily helps industrious people can permanently support non-industrious people with the same efficiencies.
THAT is why your fantasy is only a fantasy.
EDD could receive employment information from people who are employed with an employer for simple verification purposes. Additional metadata for the general welfare should be a good thing. That process would be simpler than employers having to actually maintain individual accounts for their employees or having to litigate unemployment benefits, which also cost time and money for the employer.
Removing the time limit means we should have no one falling through the cracks and homeless since there is no time limit for capitalism's natural rate of unemployment.
There should only be time limits on our alleged wars on crime, drugs, and terror.