Posted on 02/23/2017 12:41:38 PM PST by Lorianne
I am glad someone is testing this.
I’m sure the people cleaning toilets and picking up garbage don’t mind working harder and paying more tax to support the lazy filth drawing a check for free.
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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.
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The 5th/13th, A1S8, 9th/10th say otherwise.
Welfare, of ANY sort, is out of the purview of govt.
“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.”
And, human nature being what it is, on different days, different people will run out of money before they run out of month.
That way the “Feed Me, I’m Hungry” demonstrations can have a different Protest Crew for each of the last 10 days of the month!
Isn’t that wonderful!
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One word, “Inflation”.
False dichotomy, as said automation will require skilled persons to program, update, repair, improve, etc.
IE: No machine built can last forever.
the idiot parade, government dishes out other peoples money until it runs out
I’ve championed it for exactly the same reason. At the absolute least we end up with what we have now, at best we get rid of all the Democrats ‘employed’ running the welfare distribution system and possibly slightly better behavior from the great unwashed. Yes a GBI is not Constitutional or Biblical...but folks, let’s be brutally honest with ourselves: at the point our system is at we can’t sink much lower. It’s at least worth a shot.
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