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Austin City Council set to vote on $1.18 million guaranteed basic income plan
Fox News ^
| 4/20/22
| Paul Best
Posted on 04/21/2022 9:31:25 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Basic income is a government-funded policy that provides regular cash payments to citizens with no strings attached.
If approved, Austin's local government will partner with the California non-profit UpTogether to administer the program and analyze the results once the year-long trial run is complete.
"The evaluation will include analysis of survey and interview data, as well as additional case studies with participants seeking to make recommendations and measure impact in key areas such as economic mobility, social capital, and housing stability," the city council's agenda item says.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: austin; keepaustinweird
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"No strings Attached", yeah right, the families or individual, will have to get transgender hormones and be subject to CRT theory 24 hours a day like in "Clockwork Orange".
To: DallasBiff
And who doesn’t like Santa Claus?
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posted on
04/21/2022 9:38:00 AM PDT
by
sasquatch
To: DallasBiff
Insanity.
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posted on
04/21/2022 9:38:40 AM PDT
by
Vision
(Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
To: DallasBiff
Fools. We are surrounded and infiltrated by fools.
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posted on
04/21/2022 9:39:57 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: DallasBiff
America is filled with unserious people.
What will they do:
When there is no more money?
When there is no more shelter?
When there is no more food?
A nation of morons, idiots and imbeciles. All of them democrats!
To: DallasBiff
Great. Take away all incentives to become a productive citizen.
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posted on
04/21/2022 9:41:01 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: DallasBiff
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posted on
04/21/2022 9:41:17 AM PDT
by
TexasGator
(UF)
To: DallasBiff
” cash payments to citizens “
They’ll limit to citizens?
Hilarious
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posted on
04/21/2022 9:42:34 AM PDT
by
Regulator
(It's fraud, Jim)
To: TexasGator
Beautiful. I lived around the way from a homeless camp in the woods of Gainesville FL.
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posted on
04/21/2022 9:43:06 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: EEGator
Just remember one of our libertarian heroes, Charles Murray of “The Bell Curve” wrote book advocating just that.
The Bell Curve was 912 pages explaining how blacks are genetically inferior to whites. Arguable but 900 pages?
To: DallasBiff
Nations have tried universal,income and failed, but by golly ca,ifornia, with all.its liberal wisdom, knows they can make a failed concept work evidently
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posted on
04/21/2022 9:49:15 AM PDT
by
Bob434
(.)
To: DallasBiff
I want a guaranteed basic income, but it’s got to be at least 80G a year.
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posted on
04/21/2022 9:50:29 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Potentially a bit excessive…
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posted on
04/21/2022 9:51:07 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: DallasBiff
There are about a million people in Austin. I don’t think that sum is going very far.
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posted on
04/21/2022 9:53:22 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
To: DallasBiff
Hey, if they give me $1.18 Million a year, I could probably pay most of my bills, so I’m in favor. [/s]
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posted on
04/21/2022 9:55:57 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(It's hard to "Believe all women" when judges say "I don't know what a woman is".)
To: sasquatch
What if Santa runs out of toys?
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posted on
04/21/2022 9:59:54 AM PDT
by
dforest
(We have to put a stop to this now.)
To: DallasBiff
https://www.tml.org/DocumentCenter/View/1298/Top-Ten-Legal-Questions-2019 (page 5)
...
As a general rule, a gratuitous donation or gift by a city is prohibited by the Texas Constitution, art. III, §52, and art. XI, §3, which, in part, state that the legislature may not authorize any county, city, or other political subdivision of the state to lend its credit or grant public money or anything of value in aid of an individual, association, or corporation. The purpose of these provisions is to prevent local governments from appropriating public money for private purposes.
...
The test established by several attorney general opinions is that the donation must go to a legitimate municipal purpose, the city must receive adequate consideration for its donation, and the arrangement must have sufficient controls to guarantee that city money is being used for a municipal public purpose. Tex. Att’y Gen. Op. No. DM-394 (1996), Tex. Att’y Gen. Op. No. JC-439 (2001), Tex. Att’y Gen. Op. No. JC-582 (2002), Tex. Att’y Gen. Op. No. LO 98-024 (1998).
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posted on
04/21/2022 9:59:55 AM PDT
by
Vortex
(Garbage In, Garbage Out )
To: DallasBiff
Keep Austin Stoopid. Now, where can we get us some? Oh, we make a dollar per year too much. Sorry!
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posted on
04/21/2022 10:01:54 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
To: DallasBiff
Austin, Dallas, Houston, maybe a couple more in TX, they all
have what? BINGO.....Dem mayors...
To: Little Ray
Not everyone is going to get it are they? The people that work will pay for it all, but they won’t get a thing is probably the way it will work.
Only 85 families will get these paynents that come from taxpayers at the rate of 1000 per month to 85 families for a year.
If I lived there, I would leave Austin in my rearview mirror.
Let the lefties of Austun work to pay people to sit on their arse.
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posted on
04/21/2022 10:09:42 AM PDT
by
dforest
(We have to put a stop to this now.)
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