and if it works they’ll take all your money and give you $500 a month
Stupid but also crafty. They want the remaining 30% to give (be relieved of) their bank accounts for the greater good of the socialist paradise on the way if taxes are just high enough soon.
Is this universal basic income, over and above, and on top of, all the public assistance benefits that these people receive?
Don’t we already have the social safety net, so that everyone in need gets some basic minimal level of public assistance?
Or do they want to give poorer people extra money?
Where is financially strapped Chicago going to get this money to pay this UBI?
That’s like dad saying, “We’re bankrupt, so were putting in a pool.”
Chicago sounds like a good place to “be from”.
Are the American people really this dumb?
Index this news away for safe storage, to be pulled out next time any city or state is looking for a federal bailout.
So what product does Chicago produce that will pay for 1,000 people to get money they did not earn?
And when all of those people are still broke, but have nice new big-screen TVs?
Chicago Is Trying to Pay Down Its Debt by Impounding Innocent People’s Cars
https://reason.com/archives/2018/04/25/chicago-debt-impound-cars-innocent
Must be diverting funds from all those flush retirement fund accounts.
Dammit! Will you all just quit treating Chicago and Illinois as the same entity! Most Illinois residents are hard working conservatives who consider Chicago a malignant tumor on the state. On the 24th of this month I will be one year from retirement and my ass and assets will be out of here and will no longer supporting that liberal clusterfluck.
A fed bear is a dead bear.
Why not make it $5000 a month....you know....a “real, fair” re-distribution?
Nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t have $1,000 in the bank for an emergency
And they still won’t after two months of you ASSinine “stipend”
“No Questions ASSked”
Idiots
This is stupidity worthy of Maxine Waters. That is monumental indeed. Where would this money come from? What possible incentive would exist for those feeding off this extravagant government teat to even move their shiftless bodies to care for themselves? And what guarantees would exist to make sure the $500 would not end up at the nearest liquor store, bookie, or drug dealer?
Finland ends universal basic income experiment
Here we go a-f*cking-again! You cannot test a UNIVERSAL handout by giving money to 1000 families. UNIVERSAL = ALL, not + 1000!!!!!
Of course the "test" will be a success. Obviously the people who receive money will declare it a good idea. Media will have stories of fat mothers of 5 kids feeding them sandwiches instead of dog food. You will see interviews with people who declare that they can now pay the electric bill.
The impact of this "test" will be minimal. It will not affect the budget. But just wait until it is expanded to ALL, as the word UNIVERSAL implies. It will impact taxes, and the fools who continue to work will be paying for it royally.
Chicago will run out of money and demand money from Illinois, meaning that the whole state (Whitey) will be taxed, as was the original intention.
I'll skip the diatribe about the inflationary aspect.
What are they really doing? Implementing communism. Take from the earners, and give to the slackers.
If they cant make ends meet now, 500 bucks any gonna help the majority. Maybe a few, rest will just waste it
500 bucks plus a debit card for food, subsidized housing, earned income tax credit (so they don’t pay taxes, instead get money from the feds), what’s not to like — and with open borders they could have a permanent majority.
Time to ask, who is John Galt?
Dems buying votes