[SJackson]

Even if those jobs averaged $30,000 a year, the price tag would be $12 billion, or $24 billion if extended to two years.

$24 billion, presumably $60,000 a year for a two income household, that's not much. I presume for doing nothing. We can eliminate "poverty", and work, all in one swoop.

[Clemenza]

COLA was one of DP Moynihan's "brilliant" ideas that Nixon played with for a time.

[clamper1797]

I'll settle for a 10 million dollar lump sum ... after all I AM entitled to it

[thoughtomator]

Do that, watch prices go up to the point where $30k is equal to what you can get on welfare today.

If you guarantee everyone free money, all you are really doing (besides redistributing) is reducing the value of the money.

[Texas Federalist]

I'm for it. For only $275 trillion, we could all have a guaranteed income of a fat mil a year. What could possibly go wrong?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Here we go again. The same old knee-jerk liberalism that's been rejected and debunked time and time again.

Anybody can make it in America. Anybody.

[Graybeard58]

All I have ever wanted is a free pony.

[oh8eleven]

A better way to approach rebuilding would be to guarantee for a period of two or three years the incomes of those who lost their jobs in the disaster.
Well, what the hell, why stop at two or three years. C'mon, cradle to grave!!!! We don't need no stinkin' jobs!
F'in socialist scumbags.

[DainBramage]

I agree. I guarantee you zero dollars for not working. It goes up from there.

[Enchante]

I have a much better idea: why don't we pass a law requiring this author to provide ME with a "guaranteed income" of, say, $200,000 per year. I promise to show more appreciation than most people ever do when on "the dole" and this Richard Moore character can feel he is doing a valuable social service by fully supporting me in the style to which I wish to become accustomed. I'll even give a higher % of my new income to charity than Algore or John Kerry ever did........ If Richard Moore refuses to support me, or stops paying out at any time, we can have him thrown in jail since that's what socialists like to do to anyone who doesn't fall in line and pay for their foolish schemes.

[theFIRMbss]

[Sociopathocracy]

It’s because we are already a Third World country in most respects.

And who made it that way? Johnson and his raced-based give-away programs? The oversexed Kennedy Brothers with their insane immigration policy? The dirtbag MSM which loathes everything that is moral?

[Logophile]

Today, unlike in the 1960s, most Democrats and Republicans are quite content to let the poor starve. . . .

Strange, the poor people I know appear to be very well fed. I wonder who these starving poor might be.

[SIDENET]

Sounds radical, doesn’t it?

Yes. Stupid, too.

[groanup]

"Socialism has a history of such dismal failure that only and academic or intellectual could promote it."

Thomas Sowell.

[msf92497]

All I want is more FREE time. Am I not entitled to it?

[Bob J]

There is so much wrong with this article one doesn't know where to begin.

Nothing is stopping this author from going down to skid row and splitting his income with 2 or three of the "needy". If he finds this suggestion ludicrous, I wonder where he thinks the money is going to come from to fund his brilliant idea?

[feralcat]

This kind of guaranteed benefits scheme is making France such a tranquil place right now.

[MikefromOhio]

This idea is so inflationary it isn't even funny.

[JasonC]

Those who do not work, shall not eat.

That used to be a slogan of the left. How far we have come.

When people who do nothing for their fellow men live off their fellow men, they come to regard them as their natural prey. And vice versa. It is destructive of social cooperation, which is in fact where all real wealth originates. Take away that real cooperation and the wealth to fund anything evaporates along with it. Because all it is, is that cooperation in action. Money has nothing to do with it, it is merely an intermediary. The desire to live of the work of others without working is the desire to enslave others. Plain and simple.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Why do socialists like Mr. Moore always overlook that once a guaranteed income is established, every single person who makes from about 50% above that figure down to zero would simply stop working!!!! Why should they work - the check is coming, anyway? More time to watch Jerry Springer.

And all of a sudden, the tax revenues would drop by about 50%, leaving no money to fund the guaranteed income.