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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The Romans tried this with the Visigoths. IT did not end well.
Getting paid for not working? Getting paid more for not shooting anyone? Jeez, maybe I should pay money to morons who are blasting noise out of their radios in cars that the rims are more than the value of the car they have them on...
Where did he get it, from the back of a matchbook cover? Or from a diploma mill?
They know you already did & are waiting for proof as soon as they nail that slippery Trump.
Didn’t Sweden or some other lib country over there try this and it proved a failure?
Another reason to start the wall on the eastern border of CA.
Well, a thousand bucks is a start. But, the lucky recipients will want it bumped up right quick, after they blow the grand on hos and blow.
So, this is a classic basis for a perverse incentives program. The worse you appear to act, the more money you’ll get.
Another thought—with criminal recidivism so high, shouldn’t major violent criminals finishing their jail terms get a hefty stipend as well?
Threatening crime pays.
Okay so this asshats plan is to payoff the criminals? Yeah I bet then they’ll sit around day and night smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo.
My gosh Stanford has that?? How liberals ruin great places...Ole Leland must be spinning in his grave...
This program is called Advance Peace, and it's modeled after a crime reduction program in the Bay Area city of Richmond.
The overall crime rate in Richmond is 53% higher than the national average.
For every 100,000 people, there are 11.87 daily crimes that occur in Richmond.
Richmond is safer than 6% of the cities in the United States.
In Richmond you have a 1 in 24 chance of becoming a victim of any crime.
The number of total year over year crimes in Richmond has increased by 3%.
Finland recently discontinued their own failed basic income trial.
But of course, this 28 year old Stockton resident is smarter than all the Finland socialists combined.
Mark
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