The author is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Naturally.
The author is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Naturally.
Great idea! We can get the Gates family,the Zuckerbergs and the Obamas...all breathtakingly wealthy progressives who hate the injustice of capitalism...to personally fund it.
Dear Americans of African Descent:
The Democrats throw you some table scraps so you will stay under the table and lick their hands.
Conservatives want you to take a seat at the banquet table and enjoy the feast.
I used to read Ad Age in the print era. Rance Crain was a silver spooner but a decent writer with a grasp of irony.
But the Crain publications, ostensibly covering business, have long been hotbeds of radical lefties. These ivory tower types don’t seem to grasp that there is no business per se in socialism, merely lots of taking and a little bit of giving ie sustenance existence (assuming the food shows up at all).
‘Nice tie! Is that a clip-on?’
‘Very nice! 100% Rayon!’
“Chicago could become the second city in the U.S.—and the first major metropolis—to host a “basic income” pilot program.”
Yes, test the pilot program to determine if people will accept free money, and if so how much.
Keep detailed records in the pilot program to determine at what point recipients start declining the money and saying, “No, that’s too much, I don’t want anymore free money.”
And track how long it takes for the city to run out of money.
Stockton’s dynamic 28-year-old mayor has teamed up with private donors to provide 100 Stockton residents with $500 a month...
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Too bad Chicago and Stockton can’t come up with private donors to pay off their crushing debts created by decades of Democrat corruption.
I agree. Emanuel should try this so it will final finish Chicago off and Americans can take over and start again under a different name.
Going to stir some animosity...from “I didn’t get mine!” to “He makes $150,000/year, why does he need it? Give it to me!” Someone somewhere WILL feel slighted.
(I think I shot spitballs at that guy in school. Maybe it was his father.)
This basic income scam relies on the stupidity of the American people.
Thank you Jonathan Gruber, government educators, journalism, social media, cultural rot, open borders, and disinterested parents.
The test will turn out positive.
Early reviews of social pilot projects are always positive, either because of unconscious bias in the selection of the subjects, or deliberate misrepresentation of the results the reviewers are investigated in.
Then, the typical social aid project is scaled up manyfold on the basis of the initial “results”, and becomes a perpetual funded sinkhole, never to be seriously questioned again.
Is the city that overcrowded that they need to drive people out of it even faster?
PLEASE DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Before they even think about doing it for the whole country.
Then we can watch what happens, and prove how idiotic it is.
Did you ever notice how you can SEE the ‘stupid liberal’ on some people?
Finland and Quebec already tried this and abandoned the effort. So sure, Chicago, go ahead. And then try to shut it down when it fails.
Why would Amazon consider putting a headquarters there? Excessive crime and taxes and the high cost of living in Chicago seem to me to be very good reasons not to even consider it.
As for the free money plan, I’m all for Chicago politicians making utter fools of themselves and putting the disaster on display for all to see. Btw, aren’t a lot of the poor in Chicago already getting free money, housing and EBT cards for food?
Do we assume these 1000 people are already working, and that $500 is in addition to whatever income they're making? How is this money taxed, if at all? What if the recipients are already receiving government aid, is this $500 in addition to that?
I just don't get it.