California city to experiment with 'universal basic income'

WND ^ | 2/4/18 | WND

[Cheerio]

California is undoubtedly the home of the wackiest bunch of residents in the entire USA. This is what you get when you leave the borders wide open, allow illegal aliens to vote, run you ed system for all the fruits and nuts inhabiting the state, elect judges who only stand for their policies and could care less about the Constitution or the rule of law, and then expect these voters to understand economics and the results of their insane policies.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“Universal basic income” for half the population requires “universal basic theft” from the other half.

[Da Coyote]

So, the city went bankrupt a few years back, and has an essentially dead economy.
And they want to pay everyone $500/month.
Uh huh.
Their “gubmit” must have taken Common Core math in the jokes called California schools.
Get out the popcorn, this will be fascinating to watch.

[hal ogen]

Note: all homeless , crackheads, bums and other ne’er-do-wells head to cali for your monthly prizes@!!! Thanks cali!

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Venezuela here we come. Is the federal govmnt required to bail these fools out when they go bankrupt? Hope not.

[Tenacious 1]

How does a bankrupt city get funds to give all “poor” people $500 a month? This is a city with no middle class (according to the mayor). Does this mayor print his own currency?

[MGG]

“Can I get me a Post Office Box here?” - John Kerry

[pepsionice]

If this group were generating something...a service, a product, or a item of value...then I wouldn’t have much to say against it. But in this case, you paid for nothing. It wouldn’t take an idiot long to figure that you can sit at home and do nothing....getting paid to do nothing, and it’d only make sense that you make this your profession.

[Wm F Buckley Republican]

Where’s he going to get the money?

[raiderboy]

Communism. Classic pure communism.

[ClearCase_guy]

Golly I wish I owned a liquor store in that town.

[Leep]

How else can they buy pot and a transgender’d hooker.

[Wm F Buckley Republican]

This idiot mayor can expect an influx of those coming with their hands out. This is a recipe for disaster but hey, folks, keep voting Democrat.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Just what the derelicts need ... $500 a month to cover their basic expenses, so all the money they panhandle can be used for the finer things in life, like drugs and alcohol.

And just wait until word gets out.

[beef]

You have to wonder how many of the intended recipients of this largess lost their jobs in agriculture to illegals, not to mention how many of them ARE illegals.

[Zhang Fei]

I figured he was Amish. I was right.

[cyclotic]

So if everybody in Stockton is getting a check for $500 a month and not putting in at least $500 a month is taxes, what happens in two months when the city runs out of money?

Liberals are not only mentally deranged, they are completely economically illiterate.

[V K Lee]

The entire state of California truly is a world wide rebroadcast of “The Truman Show”, an attempt to show the world what ‘normal’ is in our day to day lives.

Twilight Zone revisited.
Nuts and fruit should only be found in cake, at Christmas. Preferably soaked with good bourbon or cognac.

[jonascord]

"Where’s he going to get the money?"

That's easy. EVERYONE is paid $500/month. No more, no less. Everyone is equal, at gunpoint. If you are a PHD graduate chemical engineer, there is absolutely no reason that you should be rewarded to a greater degree that some meth head with a cardboard sign on an on ramp...

[ThunderSleeps]

Exactly. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need...” Wasn’t that Karl Marx?