OK, but that’s Finland, where hard work is prized. Ask any leftist, and you’ll find out that they all are in favor of this because it takes money from productive members of society and gives it to those who vote democrat.
It is the stupidest of all ideas, even stupider than Bernie’s guaranteed $30,000 a year job, with benefits.
Sorry a$$holes, but nothing comes from nothing.
In addition, you don’t TEST a guaranteed UNIVERSAL income on 2,000 people. This should be obvious. 2,000 people is not UNIVERSAL. Trying this out on 2,000 people is not a valid test! There is no way to test a UNIVERSAL scheme except on ALL people. Elementary logic.
But they aren’t going to listen to me. This will be tried and implemented in radical extreme leftist environments, and it will fail, but leftists will demand it be strengthened, not terminated, and it will again fail miserably, but the liberals will just increase the numbers and keep it in place, and it will fail again.....repeat until doomsday.
To test, you take ALL the tax revenue gathered from the 2000 and then provide their “universal income” to all 2000 from that.
And periodically inform all what the tax revenue distribution is.
And adjust tax rates to ensure UBI payout consistency.
And send in the police to halt the ensuing riots.