Posted on 05/26/2018 10:33:50 PM PDT by KingofZion
Tubbs, a Stockton native and Stanford graduate who is all of 27 years old, wants to give at least $500 a month to a select group of residents. They'll be able to spend it as they wish, for 18 months, in a pilot program to test the impact of what's called guaranteed basic income.
If the very sound of that knocked you half off your chair, this next initiative might finish the job.
Stockton is about to award stipends of up to $1,000 a month to residents deemed most likely to shoot somebody. This program is called Advance Peace, and it's modeled after a crime reduction program in the Bay Area city of Richmond.
The idea is that a small number of people are responsible for a large percentage of violence, and offering them an alternative path with counseling and case management over an 18-month period, along with a stipend if they stay the course can be a good investment all around.
***"Exciting" is not the way everyone describes the program.
"You've got to be kidding," Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and vice presidential running mate, tweeted last month.
But Tubbs responded with a Twitter touche.
"Actually modeled after the Alaska Permanent Fund," he wrote. "Are you familiar with it?"
The Alaska fund shares the wealth on state oil revenues, awarding residents roughly $2,000 a year.
*** "I think it's not smart," said insurance agent Evelyn Vega, who wouldn't mind it so much if the free money went to people with legitimate need, rather than being awarded randomly and without requirements. "After Bill Clinton passed the welfare-to-work act, my mom had to go back to school and it eventually motivated her."
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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.
I bet this works well for the next 3 months. Before school starts back up.
And, here he wants to pre-select the recipients to be criminals. In Communism, they become criminals.
Sounds like voluntary extortion to me.
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.
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.
IIRC Finland once had some kind of guaranteed income plan...but they dropped it.
You wanna be the one who tells a recipient his free money is ending because he shot someone?
I promise you this. Your name gets in that list you wont be able to buy a gun or ammo anywhere. At least legally.
Liberal-induced insanity on full display....DUMB
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...
Liberals are insane. There is no other explanation for their insane actions.
Mo money fo drugs.
Hey, thatll work!,
what vision! What ingenuity!
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.
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.
well, to Libs, BOLD equals economically retarded apparently.
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.
Paying them protection money
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