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A $1,000 per month cash handout would grow the economy by $2.5 trillion, new study says
CNBC ^ | 02 September 2017 | Catherine Clifford

Posted on 09/04/2017 11:04:34 PM PDT by blueplum

Giving every adult in the United States a $1000 cash handout per month would grow the economy by $2.5 trillion by 2025, according to a new study on universal basic income.

The report was released in August by the left-leaning Roosevelt Institute. Roosevelt research director Marshall Steinbaum, Michalis Nikiforos at Bard College's Levy Institute, and Gennaro Zezza at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio in Italy co-authored the study.

[snip] These estimates are based on a universal basic income paid for by increasing the federal deficit. As part of the study, the researchers also calculated the effect to the economy of paying for the cash handouts by increasing taxes. In that case, there were would be no net benefit ...

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: basicincome; crackpotideas; creditgeneration; helicoptermoney; liberalagenda; paytoplay; rooseveltinstitute; socialism; welfarestate
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To: blueplum

Wow, The Roosevelt Institute has that kind of money?

I sure hope they have my correct address.


41 posted on 09/04/2017 11:40:47 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: blueplum

Makes you wonder if they will eliminate social security payments and implement something like this instead????? I bet the democrats make this a campaign issue.


42 posted on 09/04/2017 11:41:28 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: txnativegop

Okay ... one time payment for everyone ... money must be spent on firearms and/or ammo. I like your plan!!!


43 posted on 09/04/2017 11:44:37 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (.There is no difference between liberals/rinos/moslems/lamestream)
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To: WMarshal

Richard Nixon and Milton Friedman have advocated versions of it.

I think its coming - inevitable with the changes sweeping through our post-industrial economy,

Our social welfare systems are already obsolete.


44 posted on 09/04/2017 11:45:24 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Jim Robinson

Dangerous idiots. Who really do think that there will always be someone there to borrow from, and what does it matter if the burden falls on future generations. It boggles the mind of any rational human who’s ever balanced a checkbook and dug into the couch for milk money.


45 posted on 09/04/2017 11:47:24 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: SaveFerris
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46 posted on 09/04/2017 11:49:02 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: LukeL

“Instead of increasing the deficit and giving handouts, why not just cut taxes and let people keep more of their money?”

No! Who would pay for it? The country would go broke.


47 posted on 09/04/2017 11:50:48 PM PDT by Taxbilly
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To: no-to-illegals

The fact some people make bad choices doesn’t mean every one does.

I’m tired of people who would hold back the mass of humanity because some are irresponsible.

No one said being free ever came easy.


48 posted on 09/04/2017 11:51:21 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: ETL

Now, if California can just add a tax to that.......


49 posted on 09/04/2017 11:51:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Stosh
"The only item required to successfully implement this scheme is a perpetual motion machine - and I’ll bet this Roosevelt Institute has one of those as well."

The Federal Reserve has the monetary equivalent of one of those.
50 posted on 09/04/2017 11:53:04 PM PDT by Garth Tater (Return to sound money and Constitutional governance.)
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To: goldstategop
Here is an example of your "free money" in the Wiemar Republic prior to WW II:

And here is modern example of free money in Zimbabwe:

Quit trying to cuck-up Free Republic!

51 posted on 09/04/2017 11:53:17 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: Taxbilly

That’s same argument against UBI. People can’t be trusted with money!

Then why have a free country much less than a market economy?

What keeps people rational are their core values - not government coercion.

If they have good core values, how they use the money isn’t society’s business.


52 posted on 09/04/2017 11:55:24 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear; metmom; CynicalBear; SkyPilot; tuffydoodle; tang-soo; righttackle44; ...

Let’s see - a welfare system for everyone - gov’t money handed out - what could possibly go wrong?

India - Eye Scans and Fingerprint Scans for Welfare System - entire population targeted

https://youtu.be/oeBiZGU23SY?t=2m22s

We’ll just need the fingerprints and eye scans of every human on the planet. To prevent fraud, of course. I mean, there could be fake birth certificates.

Then we can have Peace. And Security.


53 posted on 09/04/2017 11:55:44 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: blueplum

True, and also developing a means to surely purify phlogiston of negative energies would enable free transformation of plumbum to aurum!


54 posted on 09/04/2017 11:55:54 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: blueplum

“The report was released in August by the left-leaning Roosevelt Institute. “

Left leaning - I’m shocked I tell you.


55 posted on 09/04/2017 11:56:46 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: WMarshal
What is your solution to the situation, that will come surprisingly soon, when almost everything in the economy has been automated and the number of jobs for which human beings are required is only a very small fraction of the number of human beings?

Free money is just the same as no money over time.

Notice that I made the same point. Yet somehow places like Kuwait have been dealing with this for a long time

56 posted on 09/05/2017 12:03:54 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: wideminded

I believe you are right, UBI is going to be a reality. With robots and AI replacing more and more in the workforce it is coming sooner rather than later. Imagine 50% or more of the America workforce replaced by machines and computers, what are these millions of people going to live on otherwise? The wealthy who’s wealth will depend on these machines ruining their industries will see to UBI or there would be a violent revolution that would destroy the nation.

My guess is UBI will cost less than the current welfare system that has most to that money going to govt employees who oversee and regulate social welfare programs. Smaller govt and less spent will be the rails that will establish GBI.


57 posted on 09/05/2017 12:09:34 AM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: no-to-illegals

All of us should remember to declare said goodies lost in a ‘tragic’ boating accident within 72 hours or so. LOL


58 posted on 09/05/2017 12:18:05 AM PDT by txnativegop (Socialism -- an evil created by ignorant a-holes!)
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To: SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal; Lera; 444Flyer; metmom; SVTCobra03; null and void; Diogenesis; ...


What's in your wallet?
59 posted on 09/05/2017 12:20:57 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: blueplum

That much ‘Free Money’ would also drive a Venezuelan style inflation ruining those who have saved their earnings.


60 posted on 09/05/2017 12:37:51 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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