Posted on 02/21/2020 12:49:10 PM PST by karpov
An act to add Chapter 13 (commencing with Section 18992) to Part 6 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2712, as introduced, Low. California Universal Basic Income (CalUBI) Program. Existing law establishes the State Department of Social Services and requires the department to administer various public social services programs, including the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families and individuals, and the CalFresh program, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. This bill would require the department, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, to administer the California Universal Basic Income Program, under which a California resident who is 18 years of age or older shall receive a universal basic income of $1,000 per month, except as specified. The bill would define universal basic income to mean unconditional cash payments of equal amounts issued monthly to individual residents of California with the intention of ensuring the economic security of recipients. The bill would authorize the department to adopt regulations to implement the program, and would state the intent of the Legislature to fund the CalUBI Program with a value-added tax of 10% on goods and services, as specified. DIGEST KEY Vote: majority Appropriation: no Fiscal Committee: yes Local Program: no BILL TEXT THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 13 (commencing with Section 18992) is added to Part 6 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read: CHAPTER 13. California Universal Basic Income (CalUBI) Program 18992. This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Universal Basic Income Act. 18992.1. (a) Subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, the State Department of Social Services shall administer the California Universal Basic Income (CalUBI) Program. Under the CalUBI Program, a California resident who is 18 years of age or older shall receive a universal basic income of $1,000 per month, except as specified in subdivision (b). (b) California residents who are 18 years of age or older and receiving benefits under the Medi-Cal program, the County Medical Services Program, the CalFresh program, the CalWORKs program, or Unemployment Insurance shall not be eligible to receive a universal basic income under the CalUBI Program. 18992.2. For purposes of this chapter, “universal basic income” means unconditional cash payments of equal amounts issued monthly to individual residents of California with the intention of ensuring the economic security of recipients. 18992.3. The department may adopt regulations to implement this chapter. SEC. 2. It is the intent of the Legislature to fund the CalUBI Program with a value-added tax of 10 percent on goods and services, except medicine, medical supplies and equipment, educational materials, including textbooks, tuition or fees for education, food, groceries, and clothing.
Final nail in the coffin.
Subsidizing Cali’s addict population. They already get free needles, gotta subsidize the drugs too.
INSANE
TRANSLATION: ALL MEXICANS PILE IN HERE AS FAST AS YOU CAN, WE’LL GIVE YOU THE GRINGO’S MONEY JUST FOR SHOWING UP.
How hard is it to establish residency in CA?
Can you just pitch a tent and say you’re a resident?
California liberals.
Their plane is beginning to stall and they still think they can gain altitude by pulling the stick back.
Freeloader convention - what could go wrong...
I’m convinced the Democrats running California, New York and some other states think if they drive it into bankruptcy they can justify assuming complete control over all aspects of the state’s operation. Also called tyranny of government.
I didn’t see any income levels. How much do you have to make to be disqualified?
I didn’t see any income levels. How much do you have to make to be disqualified?
I feel sorry for conservatives in CA. But, to be optimistic, states are laboratories for legislation. It enacted, it will fail, and the rest of the union will know what not to do; less MA, NY, IL, WA, OR, HI and DC where there the majority of the population is dumb as dirt.
A value added tax adds a tax on the value added by each step in the production process. It’s an administrative nightmare. Why? Something as simple as a loaf of bread has 67 steps in the production process and some bureaucrat has to record the value added at each step. The growth in gov’t employment will be staggering, and the consumer ultimately pays for all those taxes collected along the way via higher prices. Idiocy.
I think it’s time for the Big One to sweep away this festering anti-American carbuncle on the butt of our nation.
And how does California propose to monitor the steps in value addition on products that are being produced all over the freaking globe?
Loaf of bread will be $20.
The state is going to pay for your income by taxing you then employing state employees at higher pay and benefits than the people helped to run the program. In a state that has between $1 to $2.5 trillion total debt and liabilities.
10.5% VAT....not bad. When I was working in the UK thirty years ago, VAT there was 17.5%.
In Europe, VAT is universal as a sales tax.
In Canada, its called at the federal level the GST = Goods and Services Tax.
Provinces also have their own VAT, too.
Britain even adds it on charitable contributions when you pay online, which I tried to do once. I aborted the transaction when I saw the tax added.
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