Posted on 07/09/2020 8:41:19 AM PDT by Jonty30
Does anyone else have an “Am I being given crazy pills” moment when somebody trumpets some version of a universal basic income nowadays? On Tuesday the Parliamentary Budget Office published a response to a request by Independent Group Sen. Yuen Pau Woo; Sen. Woo had asked the PBO to estimate the costs of a federal guaranteed basic income for all Canadians between the ages of 18 and 64.
The senator proposed that the income amount ought to be in line with Ontario’s aborted 2017 pilot project on basic income: $16,989 for individuals, $24,027 for couples. He wanted to know the cost of the program given three possible levels of clawback on earned income, although not every basic-income advocate favours this.
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This will result in the productive class to go Galt.
Just like when CHAZ was created. Let them live in the Utopia they so desire. The rest of us don’t need to participate.
Like me. I have two jobs. If it so difficult to work, because my costs have been raised too high. I’ll just buy a tent and go sit my last two weeks praying and reading my Bible.
Like me. I have two jobs. If it so difficult to work, because my costs have been raised too high. I’ll just buy a tent and go sit my last two weeks praying and reading my Bible.
Every time is a bad time for this.
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