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To: ctdonath2

The way to make that work is that every citizen gets that check... even the billionaires. That red tape is not just painful to the citizen, it has a huge amount of overhead for the government to process.


37 posted on 05/13/2013 7:12:39 AM PDT by csivils
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To: csivils

Question remains: what motivates the capable to work? Why bother if all your basic needs are paid for? Send me a no-effort check for $30,000/yr and I won’t contribute $30,000 effort to the economy. I can live quite well (by my humble standards) on that.

There’s a reason the Bible opines “he who will not work, will not eat”. Without negative natural consequences, people will sit around wasting the fruit of other people’s labor. Pay me $30,000/yr for doing nothing and I’ll park myself in the woods reading library books; pay me nothing for doing nothing and within 3 days I’ll start paying $30,00/yr in taxes on my earnings.


44 posted on 05/13/2013 11:44:11 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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