Posted on 09/21/2021 8:57:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot pitched a pilot program Monday giving $500 monthly payments to 5,000 low-income households, part of the city’s proposed $16.7 billion spending plan that relies on an infusion of federal relief funds to close budget gaps for several years.
Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, characterized the proposed $31.5 million cash assistance program as a way to help “hard-hit, low-income households in need of additional economic stability.” The payments would last a year.
The idea has been discussed before in Chicago, including earlier this year by city aldermen. Similar pilot efforts, called universal basic income, have been tested elsewhere including in California and New York.
The city is slated to receive nearly $1.9 billion federal relief funds, which Lightfoot wants to use to plug budget holes in the coming years as Chicago sees increasing pension costs.
Communism grows.
why not get out of the peoples way and let citizens create and maintain jobs which will offer a steady paycheck to those same families...why do libs always want to give away someone else’s money???
Really smart way to support drug dealers. They’re probably funding her campaign.
Hey groot! How about you send me $500/month to NOT come to chiraq. I’ll message you.
This will allow the recipients to sell drugs full time instead of part time.
I think lightfoot should pay for the program
Dear God, give them bankruptcy, and soon.
If they use the Left’s typical “equity” standard, they should make sure the percentage of any given racial or gender group receiving the free money does not exceed the percentage of that group in the population.
It will not be temporary nor a pilot.
Lightfoot just invented welfare!
“Relies on an infusion of federal relief funds”
We ALL get to pay for Chicago vote buying.
Poor to be defined by skin color and political affiliation
What?! $500.00??!! Are you kidding?!
That wont even cover their Cell Phones, Internet and HBO!
Election time is coming so the handouts start.
“The payments would last a year.”
No they won’t.
Once implemented, they’ll grow to $750/mo, then $1,000/mo and more.
And they’ll last forever.
Gov’t programs never go away.
They multiply faster than the congresscritter vermin who dream that crap up.
I knew there would come a day where democrats would just straight up offer people tax money to vote for them
Exactly- We here in Erie County in Western New York are STILL paying the one-year ‘temporary’ tax instituted by Rutkowski over 4 decades ago.
This will allow the recipients to BUY drugs full time instead of part time..........................
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