Posted on 06/18/2017 10:25:37 AM PDT by ColdOne
Full Title...........................Hawaii could become the first state to offer its citizens universal basic income after bill passes through both houses of state legislature.....................It may have been the last state to join the United States, but Hawaii may trail blaze and become the first to offer guaranteed basic income.
A bill was recently passed through both the houses and state legislature in a unanimous vote that declares that all Hawaiians 'deserve basic financial security' and prompts state agencies to look over 'universal basic income' along with other policy.
'As innovation and automation and inequality disrupt our economy, we want to make sure that everybody benefits and nobody is left behind,' said state Representative Chris Lee of Kaliua to Mother Jones.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I'm very surprised HI doesn't think restricting to 'citizens' is racist.
Interesting the article doesn’t state Rep. Chris Lee’s political orientation. No doubt he or she self-identifies as a demonicRAT. I just wonder why that is left out.
I thought Carl Marx was the first.
If true, Hawaii just became drug addiction heaven, and industry hell.
Hopefully it work as a magnet and draw all the deadbeats from the other 49 States.
Now we will have a “Second Cuba” off shore. The good news though is that Hawaii is 2,500 miles off shore, so their “residents” can’t swim here to the mainland easily.
The US should keep Pearl Harbor, but the rest can do what it wants to with itself.
I’m 59 and ready to retire. Think I’ll go to Hawaii and keep “working.”
The least American of the 50 states.
Damn! And all this time I thought the “Free Lunch” concept was a myth.
everyone move to Hawaii....
Great article. Just one thing missing. How would Hawaii pay for it? Maybe they could establish some kind of reciprocity with Puerto Rico and Illinois to kite their debt from one back to another...
“Hopefully it work as a magnet and draw all the deadbeats from the other 49 States.”
Just wonder how Hawaii will “take to” thousands of Blacks and Hispanics. The Japanese are as racist a bunch as you will find anywhere in the world.
The Yakuza meets MS-13, the Krips and the Bloods in “paradise!”
Nice catch. I guess it depends on how Hawaii's legislators define citizens.
Here in Californy, Gov. Jerry "Flush It Down" Brown defines taxpayers as freeloaders.
and who pays for this
you got off your ass and worked, but who the hell do you think you are, that those who do not work should be deprived of the same income
you got off your ass and applied yourself, perhaps worked for an advanced degree, attained a good job and a good salary - who are you to think a person, who dropped out of high-school, screwed around during their teens and twenties, then went to work at a McDonalds because that’s all they were qualified for, shouldn’t be making the same income you are
The lunacy on the Socialist Communist Left, knows no limits. Absurdity is it’s calling card, it’s curved sickle blade, it’s invitation to hell.
‘As innovation and automation and inequality disrupt our economy, we want to make sure that everybody benefits and nobody is left behind,’ said state Representative Chris Lee of Kaliua to Mother Jones.
Should have added:
In addition, there are two more points I’d like to make:
1. We have raised at least 2 generations of people that want something for nothing; have no work ethic; think that they should start out with a 6 figure income and the corner office, with their degrees in Pre Roman Feminist Interpretive Studies with a Minor in Romance Languages in the Post Reagan Era.
2. We have allowed people to abuse the Social Security system with bogus disability claims, chain migration taking advantage of the system, refugees(even though we sued, won and only took in a handful), and all sorts of other waste, fraud and abuse that we don’t care about b/c we get votes from the people that game the system.
LOL!
Those islanders do everything they can to prevent more from coming over there.
This will be interesting for sure.
Difficult to think wisely when you are stupid.
Lee’s never held a job in his life.
Forget basic income...I want a unicorn that shoots skittles out it’s rear.
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