Havelock said, “The PFD is both a family or child support program and a guaranteed minimum income.”  That is a textbook definition of socialism. If you accept Havelock’s advocacy then the debate turns to how much is enough.  When you are the recipient of other people’s money there is no such thing as enough. Institutionalizing the PFD as a family and child support program would make it the subject of endless attempts to increase the amount of the PFD; because it's for the children.

Havelock asserts government income programs are common in Europe. Has anyone stayed current this past years with the financial crisis in Europe?  Government largesse is the root cause of fiscal problems in Greece, Spain and France.

Havelock said, “pain must be shared.”  I do not understand how pain is shared if around 50% pay income tax and the remainder live on the government dole.  A more equitable distribution of “pain” is a sales tax.