- Work?
Posted on 03/05/2016 7:39:37 AM PST by blam
Chris Weller
March 5, 2016
Finland and The Netherlands have already shown their interest in giving people a regular monthly allowance regardless of working status, and now Ontario, Canada, is onboard.
Ontario's government announced in February that a pilot program will be coming to the Canadian province sometime later this year.
The premise: Send people monthly checks to cover living expenses such as food, transportation, clothing, and utilities — no questions asked.
It's a radical idea, and one that has been around since the 1960s. It's called "basic income." In the decades since it was first proposed, various researchers and government officials have given basic income experiments a try, with mixed results.
Folks at the Basic Income Canada Network, the national organization promoting basic income, have high hopes.
"We need it rolled out across Canada, and Quebec, too, is in the game," said chair of BICN, Sheila Regehr, in a statement. "So there's no reason why people and governments in other parts of this country need sit on the sidelines – it's time for us all to get to work."
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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
“Is that Canuck for “gibsmedat”?”
Donnez-moi is the correct local dialect
When will these idiots learn that NOTHING is free?
“You hear that all you illegal aliens from Mexico? Free money in Ontario! Go! We’ll help you pack! :-)”
17 posted on 5 March, 2016 11:54:39 AM AST by lowbridge
Actually, illegal Mexicans had started to come north and stream across the border crossing at Detroit-Windsor until former PM Harper imposed a Visa requirement on Mexicans. Our new terrorist hugging, dope smoking, metrosexual PM Trudeau is going to revoke the Visa requirement. If I was the governor of a border state I’d be chartering a convoy of buses to take every last border jumper up to the Canadian border and tell them to fill their boots with Canadian welfare.
The Ontario provincial government is led by Trudeau gal pal Kathleeen Wynne, an openly lesbian politician who has run up massive deficits in our richest province, sowing the seeds for a fiscal collapse that is becoming more likely each day. Her “green energy” projects have caused Ontario to have the highest electricity rates in Canada or the US, which has precipitated an exodus of the few remaining manufacturers. She has just imposed a “carbon” tax, i.e. tax grab, and is all-in on the “global warming” fraud. The coming economic meltdown will be beyond the pale.
By way of comparison, the socialist State of California has an accumulated debt of $427 Billion ($11,000 per citizen). The Province of Ontario has an accumulated debt of $313 Billion ($22,000 per citizen). This 2014 study shows just how reckless the Ontario government has been, and it’s gotten even worse in the past two years. Tax and spend other peoples money. Then get stoned and let the taxpayers worry about it. The socialist answer to everything.
More people will be be dependent on government and the license for corrupt government will grow.
We could fashion it after the Berlin Airlift - and call it “Operation Taco Drop”
W gave the Katrina trash $2000 and they blew it on junk rather than to provide for their families. Women and booze, eh!
I man the Xerox machine for a small cut.
not free to somebody else.
not free to somebody else.
It's money that was taken, at gunpoint, from the Productive Class and then given to the Parasite Class, with the Ruling Class skimming off the top.
>Idle people who are supported regardless of behavior have shown a tendency to become disruptive and destructive.
Jails and ovens can correct a lot of these destructive people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tTmpzfyChw
You need this link to Money For Nothing - the one the PC police are banning for using the word “faggot” even though it has nothing to do with homosexuals.
“Free money”?
The US government already does that as part of a larger startegy.
1- Just give people money so they don’t want to (or have to) work.
2 - Pass laws to prevent people from working and implement programs that limit the amount of hours they work.
3 -Then use the resultant manpower shortage as justification to allow hordes of illegals to enter the country.
I live in Ontario.
This is news to me. Haven’t heard a thing about it.
“I’ve seen some studies indicating that eliminating the ‘middle-man’, ALL(local, state, federal) welfare departments and programs, and just giving the funding directly to recipients could save significant amounts of money in the long run. Of course how it is spent by said recipients is another matter.......”
That rational reasoning has been around for a long while. Even comes from the “conservative” side and “libertarian” side. Murray is libertarian, btw.
But since both major parties built Big Government, it is doubtful they have any interest in taking it down, except during election year speeches.
An article about “Basic Income”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
Here is even Dr. Milton Friedman
http://www.libertarianism.org/columns/libertarian-case-basic-income
These concepts and intellectual discussions used to be common but of late seem almost non-existent.
Nothing, as long as you sell drugs, booze, lottery tickets...
Alternatively they can print more money to keep up with inflation.
It’s based on the revenue, but yeah. Then again, some people can live on that in Alaska.
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