One project would be to make sure merit goods are sufficiently provided to everyone who needs them. There are certain goods that we owe to each other — education, health care, a secure retirement — and it isn’t clear that the private market is capable of providing a basic minimum across society......(End excerpt)
Hello, Workers' Paradise (Utopia) here we come.
Soon Mao Tse Dong's universal gray (or blue) suit and Little Red Book will be JUST THE THING!
Robert A. Heinlein wrote along similar lines in a number of his stories. I believe this school of thought, if memory servers me right, started in the 20s or 30s.
This is just more socialist/communist propaganda from the democrats at a newspaper. Shouldn’t you put a barf alert or a socialist propaganda alert on it?
socialism/government doesn’t work and is an evil
I see... Everyone must work or have some sort of work... Sweeping streets is “work”. And then everyone can be paid the same. Hmmm... Please see Russia and the quote “They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work”.
Or on the other hand maybe they have found a new source of “Other People’s Money” to latch onto like a vampire and drain it to death? (401k’s, Pension plans, IRA’s, cough, cough)’Someone’ has to pay for these ideas to work.
On the other, other hand it could be someone is regurgitating their College Education again.
Utopia... Bringing the human race down to the lowest common denominator. With a few overlords to manage it “properly” of course.
What is the incentive to work?
Eliminate poverty? No, it won’t. The same people who blow through a welfare check in three days now will also blow through their utopian income check in three days unless they learn to spend wisely.
Funny, nobody is willing to admit that the real problem with poverty is stupid spending.
Or, as I heard growing up. “Poor people have poor ways”.
Also the latest (Forbes) Four Reasons Why The Oregon Medicaid Results Are Even Worse Than They Look
They have no idea who the things they wish to redistribute are produced.
They think they are produced magically, and the only reason everybody isn't rich is because the producers are too selfish and don't wish to share.
The problem for them is that the production of the things they wish to redistribute ain't magic.
We already have “Basic Universal Income”. It is $0.
“would create greater equality by ending poverty”
My ribs are hurting from laughing.
In Alaska, they have a defacto version of this, when every resident gets a royalty on oil. The month the checks go out is the busiest in the hospital, due to over-doses.
You throw money at some people, and it won’t pul them out of poverty for more than a week.
“create greater equality by ending poverty”
1. Define “poverty”. If you’re living on more than half the world population, you’re not poor (and the US “poverty line” is 20x that).
2. If all money/wealth/opportunity/etc were distributed evenly, it would soon be redistributed as unevenly as it is today.
Quick, somebody post Mr. Awww, Not This Sh*T Again!
Bad idea that’s been floating around since the days of FDR if not longer.
I cannot think of a single response that would be IRS approved.
LLS
How about we bring American jobs home?
Huh?
Friedrich A. von Hayek
How ‘bout we restore consequences for sloth, bastardy, and incompetence, instead?
LOL. Learn from Commies if you are so eager to follow them.
It hasn’t flown for earlier Soviets in 1920s and ruined their productivity beyond repair.
It fact Stalinism and Gulag were an answer to Utopian socialist failures.
Forced labor was a single way to make any good use of politicized freeloaders’ society.
Is it an American future?