From the makers to the takers. Who you gonna vote for the candidate that gives you free money or that other candidate that would take it away?. Anyhow it's 5:50 AM been up since 4:45 AM to get ready to head off to work. Hope that guaranteed income fellow is nice and warm in bed.
This is one of the California cities that bankrupted itself.
Sounds like they are buying votes with taxpayer money to me.
Most likely ILLEGALS!
Well, look where the money for this is coming from: a co-founder of Facebook.
Quelle suprise.
Of course, that’s not going to attract more illegals, because they are all so hard-working that they’d never even apply for such a thing. Flies/manure.
And they certainly will account for every dime -- just like biden tracking every last dime of how the porkulus package back in '09. As I recall, when 6 months had passed, biden's people were so far behind tracking dimes, they just gave up, threw their hands up in frustration, and said, "We are way behind; just tell the people we'll get back to them on this." Of course they never did.
Easy enough to track, more or less; but hard to tell the taxpayers that 90% of porkulus went to bolster union pension funds, etc.
Why don’t they just evaluate what people on welfare do with the taxpayers’ money? Freakin’ loony lefties.
>>Hope that guaranteed income fellow is nice and warm in bed.<<
The only solace we can take is when he wakes up at noon he will be hung over. Nothing a 40 for breakfast won’t cure, though.
Stockton will make 100x that by selling the user buying habit metrics to advertising and marketing firms. I’d almost guarantee it.
In reality I think he should be shot for treason... Giving aid and comfort to the enemy....
This is the stupidest waste of $ I’ve seen all day. And I say all day only because something more idiotic is bound to come along with these lamebrain libs.
What a bunch of assholes! They are going to test the “universal basic income” by giving money to SOME people. Sorry, but UNIVERSAL means to ALL! You cannot test UNIVERSAL by giving it to SOME.
This is elementary logic.
Obviously, this “test” is going to be declared successful. Of course! The people who get the money are going to say things like: “Now I’m able to get my teeth fixed,” or “It helped pay the rent,” or “I bought a new TV.”
What’s the use? they’re going to do it anyway. No use trying to tell them that the $500 will cause prices to rise, which will have the parasites asking for $1,000, which will make prices go up, causing them to ask for $2,000, which will jack up prices, ..... (repeat until doomsday).
Not to mention that taxes will rise on those foolish enough to work.
At first glance it appears idiotic. However, years ago economist Milton Friedman advocated a “negative income tax” wherein every adult citizen in the lowest level would be give a lump sum every year as an alternative to welfare payments. Friedman was the polar opposite of liberal.
Leftist morons. How about lowering taxes and creating friendly economic climates for businesses to flourish and create more jobs for citizens. They will make more money than the welfare giveaway plus it generates more tax revenue for the city too. Can’t have that successful model—- not on the leftist agenda of communism/ socialism failure.
Local drug lords are cackling with glee
Wasn’t Stockton bankrupt not long ago?
Drug dealers will be the primary recipients of that money. The rest will be spent on home delivery pizza, new flat screen TVs and gaming consoles.
This was already tested in the late Soviet Union.
Looks like someone took their stupid pills.
California is a lost cause socialist Utopia