Posted on 03/16/2019 5:24:06 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Getting a paycheck for doing nothing could be in the future for residents of New Jersey’s largest city.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka says the city is going to study a pilot program to provide a universal basic income, or basically guaranteeing income for all residents whether they have a job. […]
The city has launched a taskforce to see if the program is feasible with help from the Economic Security Project and the Jain Institute. […]
There has not been a successful long-term Universal Basic Income program. A small basic-income program that was tested in Finland was ended after one year. …
(Excerpt) Read more at fox5ny.com ...
Paging all ILLEGALS.
If you want everyone in your community to have enough the only way that will happen is for you to rid yourselves of people who don’t have enough. It’s called by some gentrification.
I want 3 BILLION dollars a month!!!
In small unmarked bills.
Cash for people - brought to you by the folks who brought you cash for clunkers.
People in government propose such things. Funny how they never seem to key in on exactly WHO is suppose to pay for such things.
Nothing new here, we’re doing it already ... right Jesus or Maria?
Back in the seventies, Congress
decided that anyone submitting a
bill had to submit along with it the
means to pay for it.
That was allowed to die some
where along the way.
Legalize pot.
Free money.
What could go wrong?
Does anyone remember all the airplane hijackings during the 60’s and 70’s. It stopped all of a sudden. Does anyone know why?
Has anyone noticed everything was quiet after 911? Does anyone know why?
Same reason as this article. We pay them NOT to do the crime. What is the purpose of welfare? To stop them from rioting.
Anyone here think we can stop welfare?
It’s a logical extension of public sector union pensions.
This idea isn’t new. In 1969, Richard Nixon tried to push through a guaranteed annual income scheme that he dubbed the Family Assistance Plan. Governor Ronald Reagan was one of the leaders of conservative opposition to the plan, although some liberals opposed it because it didn’t go far enough. The bill finally died in the Senate in 1972.
I’ve just been reading “Washington’s Crossing”
and learned something new.
Newark was originally called, New Ark of the Covenant.
Learn something new every day.
There are two Newarks in England, thise being Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire (where the founder of the New Jersey city, Abraham Pierson, was said to have served as a minister) and Newark in Cambridgeshire. The name of both towns comes from Anglo-Saxon for “new fort”.
There are several other references in historical documents referring to the New Jersey city as “New Ark”, it seems.
Not even bothering to disguise vote buying anymore. With your money.
thise = those.
Liberals wiould feel somehow “corrupted” if they knew that.
“Ras Baraka”
Whut???
Don’t forget Sanctuary State status. NJ is DEAD and a state no more. It is now a third world Provence in the DC federation once called USA.
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