Stockton's young mayor has bold turnaround plan: Basic income and stipends for potential shooters

Los Angeles Times ^ | May 26, 2018 | Steve Lopez

[GOPJ]

Universal Basic Income is passing out money to everyone. Rich, poor, and in between...

That’s why it’s called ‘universal’.

It’s NOT “Liberal gets to pay some newly minted victim group”. Steve Lopez is an idiot.

[Dixie Yooper]

I bet this works well for the next 3 months. Before school starts back up.

[2nd amendment mama]

Nothing but reparations for thugs. No surprise here:

[anton]

And, here he wants to pre-select the recipients to be criminals. In Communism, they become criminals.

[Clutch Martin]

Sounds like voluntary extortion to me.

[School of Rational Thought]

The left considers all gun owners potential shooters.

Start sending me checks. And since it is the gun’s fault they will need to get paid too.

[Sooth2222]

"Stockton is about to award stipends of up to $1,000 a month to residents deemed most likely to shoot somebody."

PC think doesn't allow liberals to even have conscious thoughts about who is "most likely to shoot somebody".

So their efforts to control gun homicides are directed at individuals who are least likely to shoot somebody.

[Gay State Conservative]

IIRC Finland once had some kind of guaranteed income plan...but they dropped it.

[ctdonath2]

You wanna be the one who tells a recipient his free money is ending because he shot someone?

[ealgeone]

I promise you this. Your name gets in that list you won’t be able to buy a gun or ammo anywhere. At least legally.

[lgjhn23]

Liberal-induced insanity on full display....DUMB

[jonascord]

"Having just been bankrupt, I doubt Stockton owns any income producing assets."

Stockton has all those homeowners, property owners and businesses, that can be robbed for being stupid enough to remain within the city limits.

What better assets are there? They can't run, or hide their ill-gotten wealth. They stole from the People, and they must return it.

I like it. Democrat/Leftists are testing the limits of the most heavily armed civilians in human history. It can only end well...

[I want the USA back]

Liberals are insane. There is no other explanation for their insane actions.

[Old Yeller]

Mo money fo drugs.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Hey, that’ll work!,

what vision! What ingenuity!

[FLT-bird]

Hey everybody, I’m tempted to go on a shooting spree. Now give me money and I’ll refrain.

Finland tried this universal basic socialism and - brace yourself - it was a complete failure and the program was cancelled after just a year.

[VRW Conspirator]

...a pilot program to test the impact of what's called guaranteed basic income.

I hope you read this Tubbs.

History did not begin the day you were born. You could look back 100 years and scour the archives. The 20th century could be labeled the Socialist Century. That's right snowflake, your "pilot program" has long since flown.

And it failed, horribly. But, blinded by ego and unhampered by ethics, you will forge ahead prove once again:

The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples' money.

[nobamanomore]

well, to Libs, BOLD equals economically retarded apparently.

[hal ogen]

This LIB fool is affirmative-action/equal-opportunity all the way. What an ignorant, naive putz. Stockton, you voted for this buffoon. You deserve him. At least he is good for laughs.

[yldstrk]

Paying them protection money