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1 posted on 05/25/2017 2:14:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Chase their dreams of ...... doing nothing all day.


34 posted on 05/25/2017 3:17:38 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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This sounds like a plan to take money earned by whites and give it to people with melanin poisoning.


35 posted on 05/25/2017 3:18:02 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the War on White People, is to recognize it exists.)
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36 posted on 05/25/2017 3:18:03 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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It’s just a halfway measure. Halfway to making people work for it.
Once everyone has mandatory welfare, they’ll be corraled into mandatory workfare.


37 posted on 05/25/2017 3:18:55 PM PDT by Buttons12
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If you want to see what this typically results in, look at the inner cities and rural areas drowning in drug abuse and crime.


39 posted on 05/25/2017 3:31:25 PM PDT by tbw2
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The communists are winning and they won’t stop til everybody is an drooling idiot.

It’s time to mobilize.


40 posted on 05/25/2017 3:35:56 PM PDT by Skywise
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"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later."

Mitch Hedberg

41 posted on 05/25/2017 3:38:12 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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Wealth is created by work, innovation, and the conversion of natural resources.

Innovation makes innovators wealthy through either trade secret protection or intellectually property protection (such as patents).

Some nations have given citizens incomes based on federalizing resources such as oil. This may be sustainable in some cases for quite a while, as in Kuwait. In other places, like Venezuela, we see corrupt government rob their people blind. (Of course this happens in other places, like the US, also.)

In order to implement this in a developed nation, it requires robbing the rightful owners of such resources. And that is immoral. It is wrong.

However, distributing money to citizens based on government-backed intellectual property right protections, including those negotiated through treaties for international trade, could be done ethically and morally.

Intellectual property rights are NOT based on natural law. Rather, they strip natural rights of free people and use the force of government to restrict free people from using the innovations of others without paying for the right to do so. Natural law does not prohibit anyone from using any innovation they may discover or learn from someone else.

Intellectual property rights trade a natural right for the advantages of encouraging and rewarding innovation. This can be a good thing. But the whole system is broken and needs to be reworked from the ground up.

I propose that taxing all products and services that rely on intellectual property rights for a limited monopoly enforced by the government, and distributing these revenues equally among citizens (not illegal immigrants).

This has the potential to give citizens a UBI, but that would depend on the amount of innovation, sales of protected products and services, the percentage of tax, etc. I believe adjusting these things to the proper levels could provide a safety net to replace all of the wasteful government programs to “give” people free food, housing, education, medical care, etc.

Today, large, multi-national corporations game the system, stifle innovation, and exploit citizens who have been robbed of their natural rights. They do so by controlled obsolescence, and other manipulations to insure for themselves perpetual monopolies rather than the protections for a “limited time” as specified in the Constitution.

Innovations such as software based products and services should be protected for far less than the current 20 years. This should be 5-10 years. And then the code should be made open source. Revenues could also be generated through fines, but these monies should probably be redirected toward the costs of enforcement rather than distributed as income.


44 posted on 05/25/2017 4:15:38 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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“People” here doesn’t include... the taxpayers.


45 posted on 05/25/2017 4:19:58 PM PDT by 4Liberty ("Russia"? Communists have been infiltrating Hollywood & US academia for decades..........)
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Guess the $15 minimum hourly rate wasn’t enough. It was never going to be enough. They were never going to stop at that. The ultimate goal is complete government control of all salaries and all prices (communism).

For now, they want a few White a$$wholes to work their a$$es off to pay this guaranteed minimum income for all.

It will fail, as all leftist proposals do, and the leftists will demand a strengthening of the law that failed, leading to additional failure, which prompts them to demand .... (repeat until doomsday).


46 posted on 05/25/2017 4:45:05 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Acting consistently in a way that is contrary to nature results in insanity.)
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Advocating moral hazards like universal income will result in #GOPSupermajority2018.


47 posted on 05/25/2017 5:06:08 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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The other thing is to encourage Canada to go forward with this and blackhole their economy. How many bus tickets would you buy for your local torta rollers to head for Canuckistan?


48 posted on 05/25/2017 5:11:28 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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Well known libertarian author Charles Murray, author of “The Bell Curve” 1994, proposed a Basic Income.

He says it gives all people including the least capable, the basics for living, without the enormous and costly bureaucracy of issuing housing, welfare, food, health, etc.

One lump sum, spend it wisely for there is nothing once gone.


49 posted on 05/25/2017 5:15:13 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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If your dream is getting stoned and eating then... yeah.


54 posted on 05/25/2017 6:28:42 PM PDT by Noamie
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I think I have Basic Income figured out.

First use Basic Income to garner the ‘free stuff’ vote.

Then, when it inevitably causes a crisis, use it as an excue to enslave folks as ‘shirkers who are not doing their fair share.’

Win, win for the Elite.


55 posted on 05/25/2017 7:06:00 PM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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Oh boy! Free money! Why work?


56 posted on 05/26/2017 9:35:34 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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