Is There a Negative Income Tax?

Under negative income tax, everybody has a minimum level of understanding about how to spend money. So that i don't believe these administrative problems, if you got it enacted, would be at all serious. As tom sewell said, the question is not whether people on welfare, on low incomes can all spend their money effectively. The question is, how effect do they spend it, as compared to how effectively the bureaucrats spend it for them? Comparing anything to perfection or to some arbitrary standard, settles nothing.