This works great. For the first two months, then they run out of cash.
How utterly stupid.
Staggeringly stupid.
Rainbows, unicorns, and skittles
Whatever cities are chosen will quadruple in population overnight.
...to be PAID FOR by .... who???
Always works a stand in for actual work right?
Well, they do have to pay for their Crack and Heroin somehow!
Cue Dr. Evil...and the salary will be ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
Believe it or not, there are some conservative/libertarians who have brought up this possiblility. I believe it was Charles Murray, for one. His idea is to replace all welfare system payments with a basic guaranteed income. Would come out cheaper than the current welfare system, plus it would encourage better behavior economically. I would like to see it implemented somewhere else for a while, just to see what happens.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” - Margaret Thatcher
1) Stay home.
2) Don’t work.
3) Collect cash.
What could go wrong?
It works because everyone gets a government check, and there are no bureaucracies to determine if people are elegible.
Everyone simply gets the same amount no matter what.
Isn’t this really just helicopter money?
They plant money trees...DUH!
Really stupid. The first effect is a huge decline in the purchasing power of the currency. This renders the amount given worthless, spurring the government to increase the amount, which causes further decline in value of money, which leads the government to increase ..... [repeat until everybody but the ruling elite is poor]
Why limit themselves to just a free “basic income” for everyone who doesn’t want to work? Wouldn’t it be better to just give each person in the U.S. a trillion dollar coin for not working? Then everyone who doesn’t work would be RICH and not have to exist at just a subsistence level.
Furthermore, everyone could buy anything they wanted and no one would ever have to work again. The coins could be made from a base metal, so they would be cheap to make, and a few extra ones could be minted for the government itself, so taxes could be completely eliminated and yet government could still function. It’s such an elegant solution I don’t know why it hasn’t been implemented yet.
BTW, when I get my trillion dollar coin for not working I’m going to buy a pony and the Denver Broncos. Oh, and then I’m going to buy my own private jet airplane and then the Mona Lisa, and then ... why heck, I’ll be so rich I won’t even need pony food stamps to feed my pony anymore.
Sure you do. In America it is called Welfare.
It takes place in every Town, City, County and State in the U.S.A. now.
As is typical, Leftists invert cause and effect. Money is a measure of capital as in goods and services. You can’t print up money and have capital magically appear; its like moving the needle on the gas gauge on your car and expecting the tank to fill up.
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Handouts don’t work -
We have record numbers of people on the dole and it hasn’t done a thing to pull the O’conomy out of the toilet.
Maybe if they give people enough to buy yachts, airplanes, Lamborghinis, and McMansions.