Sweet! What could possibly go wrong with that?
A BIG, or a basic income guarantee is the moving force behind the so-called Fair Tax. So, for all you proponents of the FT you must realize you support the objectives of international Marxists and Communists.
The critical component of thr FT to that end is the prebate. For many people it will be the biggest monthly check they ever received.
That is a really simple idea.
From a simpleton.
Guaranteed to bring on the robots even faster.
New inventions do not cost jobs. They create new opportunities, but only if there is a truly free economic system unfettered by drones in government who interfere with or distort natural economic laws.
BCS. Born, Collect, Stagnate.
Anyone else remember that SF story?
The only ‘fair’ tax is a head tax.
Wow, this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever!
If everyone has the same income, it is no different than everyone having no income. Money is a proxy for goods and services; without the exchange of goods and services, money is worth less than the little magnetic particles that store it in the banks.
Lenin, too, tried this sort of bogus appeal to the “social good.”
Then he imposed a tyranny and sent protesters to the Gulag to be worked to death or shot.
This has been the unvarying pattern wherever and whenever this sort of crap has been imposed on a population.
I don’t agree with universal guaranteed income, but we need to be prepared for the day when huge numbers of people are replaced with automation and robotics. Think about three million long haul truckers replaced by driverless trucks. It will initially be workers in lower wage jobs that will be impacted.
You really don't need to read past this opening statement. His basic premise is incorrect. Technological change has been rampant for decades - in fact for centuries. It has not caused unemployment. It has simply provided more for less to the greater population. Even the unemployed seem to have iPhones in their pockets these days.
Only a true Marxist would take the position of the author of this article. The idea that there is not enough work to go around is simply nonsense. There is always work to be done and it would be done if not for the interference of governments at every level but particularly at the Federal level.
I say each time someone writes or shares this garbage as aa supporter, they are immediately obligated to assume the entire financial care for another chosen by lottery. They are to have no direct contact, just once a week, they get an update how their money is spent. This money is taken automatically regardless of financial considerations.
Call it practice what you preach. Let’s see how liberals react when they no longer can advocate spending other people’s money.
Ask those Russian peasants that subsisted on potatoes and vodka before 1989.
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- GUARANTEED MINIMUM INCOME (welfare for everybody) :
- “Thankful 0bama exerted his considerable influence in this matter!” - Gamecock
- Finally at least the black Chicago preachers and citizens are turning on Obama - “What good is a higher minimum wage when there are no jobs?”
- In 1-5 years the 60,00 (plus) hispanics that Obama invited to America will be illegally voting and well before that illegally taking the jobs the blacks are losing - and under the table without paying any Fed or State income taxes -
- Remember - Detroit was once a prosperous city that has now turned into swamp bankrupt bulldozed vacant lots - and the BS’ing Democrats were running Detroit -
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I’m assuming there will be a class of “betters” who will make somewhat more than the UBI.
I didn’t see anything in there about the mass executions part. Amateurs.
Businesses have to remember that robots won’t buy the products that they make.
Modern Luddites.
Welcome to the Peoples’ Republic of Haven.
If this isn’t a candidate for your list then nothing is.
Like we don’t already have that. Just travel around any city during normal working hours, you’ll enjoy seeing many members of the leisure class enjoy your hard money.
Alas, Brave New Babylon.
It’s actually a very simple idea: Everyone in society receives a single basic income to provide for a comfortable living whether they choose to work or not.
People who actually believe this would work go to the polls and vote. And they’re shocked that some people would just rather draw their check than work.