Posted on 02/23/2017 12:41:38 PM PST by Lorianne
Of all the ideas to pull people out of poverty, one of the more contentious is also the simplest: governments should just hand out monthly checks to the poor, no strings attached.
That’s exactly what the Canadian province of Ontario plans to do, and it’s already causing a ruckus. The Liberal Party currently in control of the provincial government aims to roll out a pilot for a “universal basic income” program in what could be three cities in the spring of 2017. While it has yet to identify the guinea pigs, hints of what the system will look like can be found in a discussion paper authored last August by Hugh Segal, a former member of the Canadian Senate and now head of the University of Toronto’s Massey College.
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This works great. For the first two months, then they run out of cash.
How utterly stupid.
Staggeringly stupid.
Rainbows, unicorns, and skittles
Whatever cities are chosen will quadruple in population overnight.
...to be PAID FOR by .... who???
Always works a stand in for actual work right?
Well, they do have to pay for their Crack and Heroin somehow!
Cue Dr. Evil...and the salary will be ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
Believe it or not, there are some conservative/libertarians who have brought up this possiblility. I believe it was Charles Murray, for one. His idea is to replace all welfare system payments with a basic guaranteed income. Would come out cheaper than the current welfare system, plus it would encourage better behavior economically. I would like to see it implemented somewhere else for a while, just to see what happens.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” - Margaret Thatcher
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
These cities will be insisting Cloward-Plivin come to dinner.
1) Stay home.
2) Don’t work.
3) Collect cash.
What could go wrong?
“Rainbows, unicorns, and skittles”
Wait a minute! Wait A minute! What happened to the butterflies? Are you a racist? Did you spray all the butterflies with Black Flagg?
It works because everyone gets a government check, and there are no bureaucracies to determine if people are elegible.
Everyone simply gets the same amount no matter what.
Isn’t this really just helicopter money?
I can’t see how it can be anything but helicopter money.
And a Big Mac will cost $500.
They plant money trees...DUH!
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