“so basically he wants everyone in the world to emigrate here. 12 grand a year plus welfare and healthcare.”
Actually, unless he has changed his proposal. He wants to abolish other welfare and replace it with the flat $1000 a month cash for everyone. (He probably has modified the idea so I don’t know how valid this is)
The idea is that the various Federal and State bureaucracies that administer the various welfare programs could be abolished entirely and that would pay for the cost of the program.
I could almost go along with that idea. No WIC, food stamps, welfare, unemployment, no Social Security. Instead, have a flat $1000 per month to everyone over the age of 21.
I would put a couple of other restrictions.
1. Must work to receive.
2. Must pick up the check in person
3. The Check must be certified with a fingerprint to prevent fraud
4. Must be a US citizen
5. Abolish personal deduction on income tax but lower the initial rate to a flat 5%. Otherwise, no deductions except charity because you’re already getting $1200 a year back. Everyone, even the poor should pay taxes if they earn something.
I have no idea if such a program would actually work but it is, in some ways, an attractive idea as he initially proposed it.
RE: I have no idea if such a program would actually work but it is, in some ways, an attractive idea as he initially proposed it.
Andrew Yang’s UBI is the 2020 version of Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan in 2012. You know how that went.
“an attractive idea as he initially proposed it”
People shouldn’t get a $1,000/month because they feel entitled to live in Chicago without working.
The “poor” need to understand that living in major cities isn’t cheap anymore. A Brooklyn brownstone in 1960 could be bought for about $10,000. It might now fetch $5 million.
Factories supplying US consumers need to move to cheap US locales and so do the our “poor”.