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Chicago to Try Giving $1000 a Month to the Poor in Guaranteed Income Experiment
PJ Media ^ | 02/11/2019 | Rick Moran

Posted on 02/11/2019 8:04:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The idea of giving poor people cash with no strings attached in lieu of government welfare payments has been floating around the leftist fever swamps since the 1960s. It's called universal basic income and Chicago will apparently develop a pilot program to test it.

WLSTV:

Some Chicago families could start collecting a $1,000 check every month with no strings attached. That's the new proposal from a task force created by Mayor Emanuel.

The idea is to break the cycle of poverty. The pilot program would give 1,000 struggling Chicagoans $1,000 a month.

Supporters say people could use the extra cash to cover unexpected emergencies, increase their savings and improve their health.

The money would come from a mix of city funds and charity.

It's a seductive idea. Even some libertarians like Charles Murray think it's worth a shot. With one dollar out of every three spent by the government on social welfare programs going to feed the bureaucracy, the idea of giving the poor direct cash payments seems an attractive way to save taxpayer money.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work.

Finland ended a similar experiment in April and the results have just been released.

Bloomberg:

Distributing free money to the unemployed improves their well-being, but doesn’t appear to have any significant impact on their job prospects.

That’s according to the preliminary results of a landmark experiment in Finland, the first country in the world to trial a basic income at a national level.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois; US: New York; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: berniesanders; bloggers; chicago; guaranteedincome; newyork; ocasiocortez; poor; vermont
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To: SeekAndFind

Fine with me as long as the money is not coming from me (i.e. federal government).


41 posted on 02/11/2019 9:38:47 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: beethovenfan

Not to mention black market gun sales in Chiraq.


42 posted on 02/11/2019 9:40:58 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SeekAndFind

The dealers are going to be really happy.


43 posted on 02/11/2019 9:59:26 AM PST by TexasM1A
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To: dsrtsage
Time to up my investments in liquor, gaudy bling, tasteless clothing and spinny rims.

Funny thing...you're not the only one!

44 posted on 02/11/2019 10:00:18 AM PST by gogeo (Liberal politics and mental instability; coincidence, correlation, or causation?)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Supporters say people could use the extra cash to cover unexpected emergencies, increase their savings and improve their health."

That's one thought, I suppose. I'll go with "It will cover cigarettes, beer, and maybe some nice new tattoos."

45 posted on 02/11/2019 10:12:43 AM PST by wbill
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To: Regulator
It’s not an experiment in charity.

Absolutely critical to understand this simple fact. Charity is a fixed response to a specific need. This program does not define a need. The foolish notion that giving money to chronically unemployed will somehow inspire a work ethic.

46 posted on 02/11/2019 10:18:10 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: SeekAndFind

1. People who don’t get it are going to be pissed.
2. The people who get it will complain it isn’t enough.


47 posted on 02/11/2019 10:19:11 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, we all know, already, how this turns out...

What is that word that means doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome each time? Oh Yeah! INSANITY.


48 posted on 02/11/2019 10:49:40 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: Louis Foxwell

... and charity is a voluntary donation to someone perceived to be in need. When tax money goes to taking care of needy people .... refugees, soup kitchens, etc., it is done with money taken under penalty of fine or jail if we don’t pay our taxes.


49 posted on 02/11/2019 10:50:23 AM PST by Freee-dame (Best election ever! 2016)
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To: SeekAndFind

How about some of our “charitable” organizations create a “poor farm” where these poor people can go to survive in times of need. Get the government out of the welfare business and look for alternatives in the private sector.

Let the poor farms use private sector donated funds, food, clothing, and shelter, and maybe basic health care and security. Give the residents the opportunity to work, learn and improve skills, educate themselves, and develop responsibility, selfworth, and friendships.

Many of the poor have unused skillsets - cooks, laborers (grunts), caregivers etc. to name a few. They just don’t know how or have the opportunity to use them in today’s society. But they could be used on the poor farm.

Seems to me a guaranteed basic income is just adding a $1000 more to each welfare participants income and to the taxpayers burden. Nothing will change and eventually the money will run out.

There will always be “the poor and rich” of this world. And to all the people who have been richly blessed let us remember: where much has been given much is required. Sometimes we forget our blessings in the rat-race to become rich and famous or maintain our lifestyles. But humble yourselves, and know that but for the grace of GOD go thee.

Of course, if you are a member of the Democratic plantation...there is only one choice...increase our taxes and steal more of our treasure to redistribute it until we are the “new poor”.


50 posted on 02/11/2019 10:51:17 AM PST by Texicanus (GOD Bless Texas and the USA)
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To: SeekAndFind

Let this run for a few months and then heavily audit the program.

Pretty sure bet that a whole grip of people get rounded up for fraud, embezzlement and theft.

That is *always* the point for these programs. They’re just cover for the grift.


51 posted on 02/11/2019 10:51:47 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: shelterguy

LOL!


52 posted on 02/11/2019 11:25:34 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Freee-dame

Government money is NEVER charitable. Those receiving the $1000. stipends will be filing suit against the city when the money ends.


53 posted on 02/11/2019 12:03:45 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Yeah, that makes sense.

54 posted on 02/11/2019 12:08:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SeekAndFind

A JOB is the easiest way to “break the cycle of poverty.”

Jobs are easier to find with the low unemployment rate.

This plan is doomed to failure because the recipients have no reason to change their lifestyle.


55 posted on 02/11/2019 12:25:41 PM PST by upchuck (When a society is open, then it [the Left] canÂ’t win. ~ Daniel Greenfield)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s just crumbs!


56 posted on 02/11/2019 12:31:56 PM PST by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: Grimmy

“fraud, embezzlement and theft”

Those are the people running the program.


57 posted on 02/11/2019 12:35:29 PM PST by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all.)
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To: dynachrome

And family members, their political bosses, union bosses, local thug bosses, etc.


58 posted on 02/11/2019 12:42:27 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: cnsmom
Abortion is going to kill them in 2020.

Abortion/Infanticide ought to be the top campaign idea for any and all RNC ads in 2020.

59 posted on 02/11/2019 12:48:12 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: SeekAndFind

WHEN MONEY IS GIVEN TO “THE POOR” IT’S CALLED WELFARE.

WELFARE HAD BEEN TRIED FOR DECADES.


60 posted on 02/11/2019 1:38:03 PM PST by GOPJ (The State of the Union began with a living history lesson ended with a call to greatness.Greenfield)
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