Permissivism is the philosophical position that motivates my program. This position guarantees all the members of society their right to life by ensuring their basic needs are met. Society should be more than willing to help those in need of help since it has an abundance of resources for everyone. Since people have the right to life, and society is able to help them, then its members should be entitled to its resources unconditionally.
Each year the cost of living and housing subsidies increase significantly. However, minimum wage only increases every few years making it hard for minimum wage workers to keep up with rising costs. As costs continue to rise, more people struggle to maintain a comfortable standard of living, or even any degree of living. The assistance from the state could be the difference between someone having food to eat and them starving; or them having a place to stay and being homeless. It is morally, and constitutionally, right for society to supply its surplus of resources to assist people and fulfill everyone's constitutional right of life.
People with individualistic views may argue that people are free to decide and choose what they want to do and with this freedom comes responsibility. Individuialists believe responsibility is individual, not social. Therefore, people must be willing to accept poverty as a consequence of their own actions and society has no liability for this consequence. They may also attack my program and say that it is unjust to raise taxes in order to further support members of society and their own bad choices. However, bad choices aren't always the root of poverty. Many people are poor simply because they were raised in these conditions and don't have the same opportunity to succeed as others. In fact, children make up the biggest percentage of homeless people and in no way is their situation due to their wrong decisions. True enough most people have the right to choose, but people have no control over the changing economy, the rising of housing subsidies, the high cost of living, or the insufficient minimum wage.
