The answer is not "more welfare". It's not "less welfare" either. It's "Smarter welfare"
As I said before but you ignored, they did an experiment in Dauphin, giving everyone 60% of then-poverty level income. Very few people stopped working, and those that did were teenaged males and new mothers. The males went to school, and the mothers spent more time with their kids. And even then, it was only a few percentage of those demographics, 4% at most for the women.
What DID happen is that high-school attendance went up, health-care visits (therapy and hospital) went down, and quality of life in the town went up.
Extrapolated out to the entire country (of Canada), health-care costs saved alone would equal 4 billion dollars. There is little added bureaucracy because it's not means tested, you just apply and get it. And other means-testing welfare systems can be abolished, saving more money.
Even if it were to cost more, which while I doubt it, is possible, that money used would have greater results than what is currently happening. It would be more efficient, would not lead to lower work levels, and would save money in a lot of different areas.
[Note: Everything after here is speculation. With the implication that everything above here is -not- speculation. Because it's not, it's concrete data. Look up Mincome.]
And that's not even counting the kind of power it would give the average worker. If you could stop working because of maltreatment or safety hazards at work and not starve within 2 months, quality of work environments would almost increase, hell income might even increase if workers had more clout by being able to quit more easily as incentives for employers to not be assholes.
In case it's not clear, to me, most welfare as it exists is good in intention, but becomes corrupted and stupid in implementation. Arguing to me by saying "But look at what all this welfare is doing! Income cliffs!" is worse than useless, because it gives a basic-income argument more weight and doesn't actually argue against what I've been saying.