It IS welfare, that's the bottom line, because you want to support a bunch of people who COULD work but choose not to. That's the bottom line, it's not UC, which supports people temporarily laid off from their job.
It is not welfare since welfare is means tested and has nothing to do with whether or not someone is employed or not.
There is no requirement to work in an at-will employment State. Anything that denies or disparages employment at-will is not Constitutional and should be challenged.
But it will be means tested, as you yourself was forced to admit. You can't collect if you're already getting a paycheck, or are a minor, just for two examples. It's welfare because it's open to everybody whether they ever worked a job or never intend to. It's welfare. UC is an insurance program. What you want is welfare.
Not at all. It is just you trying to quibble. Unequal protection of the law is the problem now. Solving simple poverty by solving for Capitalism's natural rate of unemployment in a market friendly manner is not welfare which doesn't care about economic phenomena as long as the person qualifies due to means tested criteria.
You're spouting meaningless word salad again. Words mean things and you keep trying to change what they mean. You're not solving for "simple poverty" because what you want to do won't solve it. You're pretending that you're not talking about welfare, but let's look at that. You want to:
1. Pay people in dollars what they now can get from welfare, and you don't specify that you want to get rid of welfare. That's doubling welfare spending.
2. Pay people this money whether they quit a job, got laid off, never had a job, or never intend to have a job. This on top of welfare. Since you claim that current welfare recipients get $14/hr and you want to match that, we're talking about every adult in the country could receive $28/hr for doing nothing. And you wonder why no one takes you seriously.
3. CHANGE UC from a self-supporting program that's funded by specific taxes on employers and that has relatively few recipients compared to funders into a massive program fed by a general tax on the entire population and has every person now receiving welfare on it, plus those legitimately laid off. IOW, you've created a new welfare program that's bigger than any of the others we've created.
There is no unequal protection of the law. If there was, it would have been ruled so by a court challenge a long time ago. That's only in your head and no one agrees with you. And again, I've given you the situations to prove that whether you can get UC or not has no bearing on whether it's legal for you to quit your job or not. In fact, you steadfastly refuse to even answer the situations. I'll ask again, just to further illustrate how vacuous you are.
1. You quit a job. You can collect UC. Are you allowed to quit your job? Yes.
2. You quit a job. You cannot collect UC. Are you allowed to quit your job? Yes.
Can you in any way show how not being able to collect UC makes it illegal to quit your job? If (and when) you can't, you would, if you had any integrity, stop carrying on about unequal protection of the law.
What you want to do is means tested welfare an will have no more impact on poverty than existing welfare programs do. I don't expect you to honestly deal with the situations I gave you. I don't think you're capable of doing so.