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A universal basic income for transgender and 'non-binary' people? Palm Springs steps right up
American Thinker ^ | 9 Apr, 2022 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 04/10/2022 5:21:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber

One-party blue California is an amazing repository for bad ideas that have failed elsewhere, and nowhere is that more obvious than in Palm Springs.

The ritzy desert city has shucked out $200,000 to two activist groups to come up with a pilot plan for a "universal basic income" solely for the city's transgender and "non-binary" individuals, with a plan to apply for the cash for it from the state.

According to NPR, which has an impressively surreal report about it:

The city council unanimously approved allocating $200,000 for DAP Health and Queer Works in late March. But this was just the first step to develop the program, which would provide a regular no-strings-attached stipend.

The two organizations are now in the works to design the pilot program. They aim to apply for a piece of $35 million in state funding — set aside for universal basic income programs — sometime later this year.

Where do we start?

Well, the first problematic thing about this is that the plan seeks to selectively dole out taxpayer cash to favored special interest groups

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: communism
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1 posted on 04/10/2022 5:21:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Can the politicians in California get any fruitier or any nuttier?


2 posted on 04/10/2022 5:21:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on mycreen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

California will soon run out of other peoples’ money.


3 posted on 04/10/2022 5:24:35 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: MtnClimber

Hey great idea, move to Palm Springs claim you are trans and grab the cash.


4 posted on 04/10/2022 5:25:19 AM PDT by dblshot
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To: MtnClimber

This is what political agitation looks like.


5 posted on 04/10/2022 5:27:49 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Socialism should more accurately be called Sociopathism)
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To: MtnClimber
Doesn't sound discriminatory to me. Not at all.

Steal money from some people, and give it to others due to
their personal, private weirdnesses - just, ya know - 'because'.

Sounds, well - almost Constitutional, even.

Well - maybe not.
Perhaps, 'Looney' is a better description...

/S


6 posted on 04/10/2022 5:34:32 AM PDT by GaltAdonis ( )
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To: MtnClimber

I think it’ll turn them into morbidly obese hoarders, but you do you, California.


7 posted on 04/10/2022 5:35:46 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: MtnClimber

How nice — a consolation prize for being a freak. They may well need it as I suspect many are too damaged to hold down a job.


8 posted on 04/10/2022 5:38:12 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: OttawaFreeper

California will soon run out of other peoples’ money.


I’ve been thinking that for decades, but it never seems to happen.


9 posted on 04/10/2022 5:39:18 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: MtnClimber
It's nothing more than payoffs. What little will get outside the pro grifters in the po'test groups will go to benefit the f@gs on the Council who voted for it, precisely because Palm Springs needs workers.

$900/mth in PS = find 3 other people for a a 2-bedroom apartment, who then if they want to eat, work in the commercial kitchens and make sammiches for the gentrified Palm Springs F2ggotry L. O. F. L.

10 posted on 04/10/2022 5:43:08 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Enjoy the goosestepping parade of Putlim Soviet c!rclejerkers lining up for the Tedlim-style putsch)
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To: rbg81

Maybe they’ve had a preferred back channel connected to billionaires like Soros and Gates that reimburse programs that keeps California on the path to socialism in their anti-Christian, anti-American, wacko republic.


11 posted on 04/10/2022 5:48:18 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: MtnClimber

With “universal basic income”, reparations, affirmative action, preference in hiring and minority set-asides, minorities are the most highly privileged and unworthy individuals in the country.

They live off the hard work of the normal people who are blamed for all the failures and pathologies of the abnormal ones.


12 posted on 04/10/2022 5:57:36 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.)
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To: MtnClimber

“a “universal basic income” solely for the city’s transgender and “non-binary” individuals, “

Why would they do that? You’ll just end up with more of them. This type of behavior should be discouraged, not subsidized and celebrated.


13 posted on 04/10/2022 6:06:47 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Politicians steal your money and use it to pay off their “rents” to the people who keep them in power.

Democracy is a failed experiment.


14 posted on 04/10/2022 6:11:18 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: MtnClimber

I’m non-binary,
This week, I’m octal.
Next week, I’m going to be hexadecimal.


15 posted on 04/10/2022 6:15:24 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (i am not responsible for gremlins attacking this tagline)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes. They can and will. Hang around and watch.


16 posted on 04/10/2022 6:16:35 AM PDT by sport
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To: MtnClimber

I believe the issue is grave, but not basic income worthy


17 posted on 04/10/2022 6:17:34 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: dblshot

Exactly. I bet there will be cis-gender people identifying as trans or non-binary just to get the payout. How could anyone prove them wrong?


18 posted on 04/10/2022 6:28:04 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (< < Wandering aimfully > >)
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To: MtnClimber

Palm Springs jumped the shark. It used to be a nice Republican city, now it is a liberal dump...


19 posted on 04/10/2022 6:28:56 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the ones trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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Hey, I live in Texas but I identify as a transgender living in Palm Springs ... where’s my $$$


20 posted on 04/10/2022 6:37:13 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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