By "libs" I hope you mean "Democrats". If you mean "libertarian" leaning folks...
Posted on 11/14/2013 8:38:56 AM PST by Kaslin
This was the final outcome that Cloward and Piven hoped to achieve by collapsing the welfare system. Hardly Libertarian.
Au Contraire. There are plenty of libs here at FR that support increased taxes.
Not necessarily to give free money away, but rather to fund their pro-dope agenda.
And all this “free money” represents - what?
Money is actually an abstraction, the assigning of relative value for goods and services, with a medium of exchange designated as stones, or metal disks, or seashells, or something else that is by general agreement, is believed to be both rare and valuable. Money’s value is measured by how swiftly the velocity of transactions proceed, not by a static collection of its tokens.
Probably nothing decreases the value of perfectly good paper more than printing upon it some designation of “units” of the acceptable currency, then reprinting it over and over in vast quantity.
Gresham’s law is an economic principle that states: “When a government overvalues one type of money and undervalues another, the undervalued money will leave the country or disappear from circulation into hoards, while the overvalued money will flood into circulation.” Bad money drives out good money.
We are seeing it at work right now.
Explains why Tina Turner renounced her United States citizenship and became a citizen of Switzerland. /s
If you give everybody x amount of money, x becomes the new zero. x dollars will be worth practically nothing. So the idiots will propose to give everyone y dollars, and y will become the new zero. So the idiots will propose z dollars and so on until total breakdown of the currency system.
Whenever a liberal law fails, as they all do, liberals always demand a strengthening of the failed law, which also fails, prompting liberals to demand a further strengthening, ....
Nonsense, that’s not a Libertarian idea. It’s a DEMOCRAT idea.
Thomas Jefferson would be horrified. It’s not a Democrat idea, it’s a COMMUNIST idea.
Sadly democrats these days ARE communists.
This has been The Grail for the left for at least 45 years. Along with it, is the idea that no one would be allowed to earn more than 10x the basic stipend. Any excess over the putative $100k/year maximum allowed would automatically go to the government for redistribution.
This is actually the precursor to King zer0’s pronouncement that “No one needs more than $3M for retirement.”
I believe the UK has instituted this, or attempted to, under the rubric of saving administrative costs. It is called “Simple Payments” or something similar. Have also heard it referred to as *giro*, meaning a payment between banks, IIRC, but used to designate the weekly “Job Seekers Allowance”.
From what I have read, the dole day payments result in rapid transfer of the checks between *doleys* (dolees). (see Urban Dictionary or watch the UK version of “Shameless”)
This is not free, it is a petting zoo program. Whoever is giving that money the animals are going to depend on it.
indeed, whoever refuses this currency is going to be lynched by the terrorists.
It is not fraud because it is “democratic” and the “people” want it.
Wat?
No.
Just...
No.
My own "pro-dope agenda" consists only of discontinuing the "War on (Some) Drugs" and possibly introducing some sort of tax on drugs. That does not require any "funding."
Regards,
No, income redistribution of any sort is not a libertarian idea. However, there is a libertarian argument that *if* a society decides that it will redistribute income to ensure that all citizens have some minimum level, the only way to do this which will not create perverse incentives is to give everyone the minimum income, rather than means testing it. Milton Friedman made the point years ago.
I guess a least of evils philosophy.
Alaska does this with its state revenues for oil licensing and such. It does tend to encourage loyalty, I can say that much.
By "libs" I hope you mean "Democrats". If you mean "libertarian" leaning folks...
See tagline for a definition of what lib means.
No. I’ve seen your idiotic tagline before. It’s as true as Obama saying you can keep your healthcare plan...
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