[PROCON]

Does anyone remember Cloward-Piven?

[LS]

It might surprise a lot of people around here that both Milton Friedman and Charles Murray have endorsed a basic income plan.

[right way right]

Stop posting real satire dammit.

[Vermont Lt]

If we were to write a check to everyone for a basic level of living, would that not lead to the inflation to the point where that standard of living would simply increase in cost.

I think of college tuition. Let’s hypothesize that everyone with a kid in college gets a $1,000 tax credit. That means a direct payment of $1,000 for parents to use for college.

What would be the college’s reaction? Would they keep their prices at $1,000? Or would they assume that students IN college would already be paying for it, so why not pick up all of the money on the table.

The liberals would argue that MORE kids would be able to afford college, so the colleges would not increase their rates.

The bean counters at the college would look at this as free money to scoop off the table—and they would know it would be temporary—so they would increase their fees by that same $1,000.

The poor kids would still be $1,000 short. The students have to kick up the extra $1,000—and still fund the tuition.

It might take a semester or two, but the excess money would be absorbed into the system. And nothing is gained.

Pumping money into an elastic system is just stupid. The system will expand to consume the extra money.

[I want the USA back]

Give everyone a fat check, and prices rise at once, causing the “poor” to need and demand more money, which causes prices to rise again.

Liberal “solutions” always fail, and then the liberals demand a strengthening of the failed solution, which also fails.

[SamAdams76]

We can pay every "poor family" a thousand dollars a week (making them "richer" than many working people) and still we will get the caterwauling that they "can't make ends meet" and there will still be resentment towards the "top 1%" - which is code for anybody that makes more than them.

[Mad Dawgg]

If there was no qualifications other than being a citizen of the US no matter what income you currently make, 1 buck a year 10 billion a year you still get the check then I can see it working. As long as you end welfare payments entirely. But absolutely no qualifications other than being an adult citizen of the United States of America.

Now it will cause some inflation BUT, it is a much better alternative than welfare etc.

[Thom Pain]

HORSESH*T !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jack Hammer]

And, yes, be sure to confiscate the money from those who work.

Sorry, Betsy, it’s already been tried by Lenin, Mao, Castro, and Ho Chi Minh, among others.

It didn’t quite work out.

[Drew68]

There’s unhappiness on both sides of the political aisle—conservatives harrumph about “welfare queens” and liberals complain about the expensive drug testing required to collect welfare checks, for example.

Where in America are welfare recipients required to pass a drug test?

[Dead Corpse]

Only for the economically illiterate...

Take water out of one end of the pool, and dump it in the other end... Do you have more water in the pool?

No?

Then how in the hell does “wealth redistribution” work any better? All it does is discourages production and encourages sitting on your arse...

[liberalh8ter]

Only if the money comes from the private accounts of every member of government and NO WHERE ELSE.