It will ‘buy’ votes, but here’s the curious thing....it requires a ton of money (meaning additional taxes). So it will create a mini-recession in just the first year. As jobs slow down and tax revenue decreases....more people require it, and the tax situation has to escalate.
I would suggest that about four years into this...it’ll flip up a civil conflict where taxation and basic income only equal physical violence (a revolutionary conflict).
“I would suggest that about four years into this...it’ll flip up a civil conflict where taxation and basic income only equal physical violence (a revolutionary conflict).”
I don’t think we’ll see either a civil war like the one in the nineteenth century, or a revolutionary war like the one in the eighteenth century. The reason is both were conflicts between huge, established political entities tied to land and special interests. The conflicts we have today between ideologies, liberal and conservative, or have and have-not, are not tied to land and the same type of large scale special interests. (George Soros does not have the trading interests of the colonies or the cotton economy of the South. He’s just a rich eccentric.) We are in a civil war, the physical conflicts are being paid for by special interests, like Soros. Thus Antifa, BLM, Occupy Wall Street, etc. are not grass roots so much as mere paid mercenaries. They are not the result of the type of tectonic forces that brought us the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, or world wars one and two. They are, by comparison, tempests in tea pots.