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Panel held to discuss the future of public policy and the Universal Basic Income
UMass Daily Collegian ^ | 10/17/17 | Wiesenberg

Posted on 10/17/2017 6:43:06 AM PDT by pabianice

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Yes, gentle Freepers, you and I get to pay for Johhny's degree in Women's Interpretive Dance.
1 posted on 10/17/2017 6:43:07 AM PDT by pabianice
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quote “right to leisure or our right to recreate”

whoa... must have missed those rights!

don’t tell my kids about them!


2 posted on 10/17/2017 6:45:26 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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Universal Basic Income. It works great in North Korea.


3 posted on 10/17/2017 6:45:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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Hmmmm... “right to leisure” and “right to recreate”... those are addressed as rights in the Constitution... where?


4 posted on 10/17/2017 6:47:38 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberals, go find another country.)
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Does anyone remember the lines in the soviet grocery store? Standing in line for hours for rotten potatoes...............


5 posted on 10/17/2017 6:48:15 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Socialism does not work...thump...socialism does not work...thump...socialism does not work...thump...socialism does not work...thump...socialism does not work...thump...socialism does not work..


6 posted on 10/17/2017 6:50:22 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: pabianice

Is this panel part of UMass’ Mental Masturbation Major ?


7 posted on 10/17/2017 6:52:08 AM PDT by tomkat
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An income requires an outgo.

The outgo already comes up a bigly bit short, so continued ideals in that direction are a bit flawed.

8 posted on 10/17/2017 6:52:47 AM PDT by blackdog
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9 posted on 10/17/2017 6:53:17 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: pabianice

So maybe I can get an extra $1K/mo and collect my retirement too?


10 posted on 10/17/2017 6:54:22 AM PDT by umgud
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I beg to differ.

"Socialism is a wonderful concept of government. That is until the government runs out of other people's money" - Margret Thatcher

11 posted on 10/17/2017 6:54:32 AM PDT by blackdog
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And their PhD in Advanced “How I am feeling today”.


12 posted on 10/17/2017 6:55:20 AM PDT by Little Pig
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Yeah, this is the person who tells me that everyone deserves the same income:

Seems to me a Ph.D. economist should have been on the "expert" panel. The sad thing is a lot of people will believe the bullcrap that comes out of this.

13 posted on 10/17/2017 6:56:20 AM PDT by econjack
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When more and more gray and white collar occupatons are replaced by automation and AI, this will become an issue. I have no solutions, but the risk of pretty much EVERYONE being out of work is very real. and in just the next few decades (if not sooner).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU


14 posted on 10/17/2017 7:02:52 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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I had an uncle from Estonia who fled the Soviet takeover at the age of ten. He was the only member of his family to survive. His family's crime was owning a very productive farm. For that they were all rounded up into the barn and shot. The crops and livestock were taken.

The only way he could listen to people like this was with a tall pint glass of vodka. Their numbers have exponentially increased since he died. I am glad he is being spared the horrors and night panic attacks.

15 posted on 10/17/2017 7:03:29 AM PDT by blackdog
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“Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It’s not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the “right” to education, the “right” to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.”
— PJ O’Rourke


16 posted on 10/17/2017 7:03:40 AM PDT by Noumenon (Can you imagine if Islam were NOT the religion of peace?)
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The same income for PhDs and for McDonald’s floor sweepers. Works for me.


17 posted on 10/17/2017 7:17:52 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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Universal Basic Income == Communism


18 posted on 10/17/2017 7:22:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (You can't have totalitarian globalist government if the peasants are armed.)
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I grew up in a town in the '50s where a "universal basic income" was available. It was in northern Minnesota in a medium sized town surrounded by three Indian reservations. In order to receive this "universal basic income", one simply had to demonstrate at least 1/8 Indian blood (one great grandparent), and to live on one of the reservations. The "universal basic income" was paid by the federal government through the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

It seemed to me that the "universal basic income" destroyed the incentive to do most anything else. Most homes, at least those visible from the public roads, were described as "tar paper shacks". Alcoholism was rampant, at least as indicated by the public arrest records in the local paper. The town held the record of being the most crime riddled town in Minnesota.

Do we really want this for the entire US?

19 posted on 10/17/2017 7:24:54 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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UNIVERSAL COMMUNISM

Universal Anything is Communism eg background checks.

Univ Basic Income begins signing up 3rd world nations, bring your poverty to America.


20 posted on 10/17/2017 7:41:04 AM PDT by TheNext (FBI FAKE STORY: Lone Shooter, But Died)
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