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Universal Basic Income Has Majority Support In The UK And Canada But Not In The US
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| 10/01/2019
| John Sexton
Posted on 10/01/2019 7:35:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Gallup released the results of a survey today on the topic of Universal Basic Income. The survey found that respondents in the UK and Canada overwhelmingly support UBI while it remains a minority position in the United States:
A recent survey by Gallup and Northeastern University finds a slight majority of Americans opposed to a universal basic income (UBI) program as a way to support workers displaced by AI adoption. Conversely, about three-fourths of residents in the U.K. and Canada favor the idea…
In the survey, UBI was defined for respondents as a government-instituted program that would provide every adult with a specific amount of money each year. These funds would serve as income support for people who lose their jobs or occupations because of advances in artificial intelligence…
Gaps in support for UBI among the three countries surveyed may be due to the tradition of more robust social safety nets in the U.K. and Canada than in the U.S.
In all three countries, young people are the most supportive of the idea. In the UK and Canada, about 80 percent of those 18 to 29 support it while in the US it’s 60 percent.
As for why there is such a gap between countries, Gallup may be speculating a bit but I think they are onto something. Countries where people expect free health care paid for by the government seem more likely to accept the idea of cash handouts paid for by the government. In fact, the most interesting result in this survey was the follow-up question about whether or not supporters of the idea would be willing to pay higher taxes to implement it. Here’s the chart prepared by Gallup.
Keep in mind this chart is the result for supporters of UBI only. Notice that in the U.S. it’s the young people who are most willing to pay for it. Put another way, only a fracton (14%) of the 60% of young supporters of the idea in the U.S. are not willing to pay more to make it happen. Meanwhile, in the UK and Canada 80% of the young support the idea but barely over half of them are willing to pay for it through higher taxes.
It’s enough to make you think that some sense of basic economics still permeates the U.S. In fact, I wonder if support for UBI wouldn’t rise UK/Canada levels if people here in the U.S. were less likely to feel obligated to contribute the money to pay for it. After all, UBI packaged with higher taxes (even if that’s just implicit in the respondent’s mind) is less appealing than UBI without higher taxes.
I’d genuinely like to know where the people who want this but aren’t willing to pay for it think the money will come from. Someone else, obviously, but who exactly would it be? They seem to have forgotten that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.
TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
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The Universal Basic Income was also VOTED DOWN by the Swiss in 2016 by a HUGE MAJORITY. Final results from Sunday's referendum showed that nearly 77% opposed the plan, with only 23% backing it.
The proposal had called for adults to be paid an unconditional monthly income, whether they worked or not.
The supporters camp had suggested a monthly income of 2,500 Swiss francs (£1,755; $2,555) for adults and also SFr625 for each child.
SEE HERE:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36454060
To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
Once the young become a voting majority you are not going to recognize this planet.
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posted on
10/01/2019 7:38:52 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: SeekAndFind
Nothing says economic ignorance like UBI support.
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posted on
10/01/2019 7:39:55 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
To: SeekAndFind
As for why there is such a gap between countries, Gallup may be speculating a bit but I think they are onto something. Countries where people expect free health care paid for by the government seem more likely to accept the idea of cash handouts paid for by the government. LOL - Gallup is hereby promoted from Captain Obvious to Major Duh !
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posted on
10/01/2019 7:40:14 AM PDT
by
Mopp4
To: SeekAndFind
This was tested out for a year in Finland. Before the conclusion of the year....the authorities admitted it was a failure and could never work as intended. They even did it to a smaller audience of a thousand people, and the statistics were dismal.
To: SeekAndFind
How stupid ARE these people?
(Rhetorical question.)
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posted on
10/01/2019 7:42:26 AM PDT
by
GnuThere
To: outpostinmass2
A lot of people are worried about robots taking over ALL jobs. Even doctors, attorneys, etc.
Couple that with the nightmare a significant portion of our young population is looking at regarding student loan debt, and I can see why they are for such a thing. We have an entire generation that is looking at a lifetime of indentured slavery with no way out.
I think we have to do SOMETHING about the student loan debt or we’re going to get socialists voted into our congress and perhaps even the president.
I think allowing some sort of relief regarding bankruptcy, collages cosigning, or something really needs to happen. We can be hard nosed about it if we want, but that will just chase them into the arms of the socialist politicians, and my tag line will actually come true.
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posted on
10/01/2019 7:44:21 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
To: outpostinmass2
Not just sheeple, but stupid sheeple.
Note to the folks demanding the free ****: I hate to break this to you, but the only economic system that can keep you in the style you’d like to become accustomed to is capitalism.
Folks who want free **** should vote for Trump. A healthy, thriving capitalist economy is their only hope.
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posted on
10/01/2019 7:45:06 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
To: SeekAndFind
The suggested basic income is just far too low for me to afford Greta’s sailboat. I need more.
To: SeekAndFind
That’s because we have developed a strong and well reasoned distrust of those dummies who went to college, purchased a worthless journalism or political “science” degree, and then proceed to lecture those of us who actually have ideas and produce things.
The Brits and some Canadians apparently still actually believe the dummies writing their news.
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posted on
10/01/2019 7:45:43 AM PDT
by
Da Coyote
(eh)
To: pepsionice
RE: This was tested out for a year in Finland. Before the conclusion of the year.
We cannot replicate this “experiment” in the USA. Unlike the Finns, we are too big, heterogeneous and unwieldy. Once the Federal government starts a program, it will never end and the demand will only be to expand it and shovel more money into it. In the end, it will be a never ending money hole.
But hey, Andrew Yang likes this idea. That’s why this is his signature issue running for President.
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posted on
10/01/2019 7:45:59 AM PDT
by
SeekAndFind
(look at Michigan, it will)
To: Buckeye McFrog
I already dont. It is dystopic beyond the worst fears.
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posted on
10/01/2019 7:46:57 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: SeekAndFind
If US is to adopt UBI, federal gov must FIRST drop all aid to dependent children, all welfare payments, all food stamp programns, all social security payments to everybody under age 65, and all social security disability payments under 65. Then we can talk.
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posted on
10/01/2019 7:48:37 AM PDT
by
Rapscallion
(If they are not for Trump, they are against him. Fire them.)
To: SeekAndFind
Are there so few jobs that we need UBI or are there so many jobs that we need to import labor? The left is contradicting itself.
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posted on
10/01/2019 7:48:57 AM PDT
by
ArcadeQuarters
(Socialism requires slavery.)
To: SeekAndFind
To: outpostinmass2
To: SeekAndFind
“In all three countries, young people are the most supportive of the idea.”
“Well kids, your Mom and I have good news and we have bad news. I know you were hoping the Universal Income bill would pass. It did. So now you’ll have a monthly check for doing absolutely nothing.”
“So what’s the bad news, Dad?”
“Remember the several million dollar estate you were going to inherit when we passed? It’s now gone. The government took it to help fund your Universal Income plan.”
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posted on
10/01/2019 7:51:23 AM PDT
by
moovova
(You can't buy it back if you didn't sell it to me.)
To: SeekAndFind
At least 47% don’t pay taxes... it’s just free money for them. They would be happy for those “who have” to pay more in taxes to support them. Remove them from the survey population and then see how popular this becomes...
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posted on
10/01/2019 7:51:35 AM PDT
by
pgyanke
(Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: SeekAndFind
Marxism is always stupid, but considering the non-stop leftist virtue signaling coming from Americas Upper Class, I’m starting to support killing them and taking their s*it!
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posted on
10/01/2019 7:52:51 AM PDT
by
The Toll
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