OK, how is paying someone not to work going to boost employment?
Wow, who thought this would ever come crashing down?
Leftist logic:
Why should we stop this test? The public hasn’t run out of 100% of their money yet.
Gee I wonder what went wrong?
The trial aimed to discourage people’s fears “of losing out something,” he said, explaining that the participants would continue to receive the 560 euro payments even if they found jobs.
The thinking was that a jobless person might refuse a low-income or short-term job in the fear of having their financial benefits reduced drastically under Finland’s generous but complex social security system.
Swiss voters last year rejected a proposal that would have guaranteed that all residents receive roughly $2,560 per month to help cover their basic needs.
the way to reduce poverty and boost employment is to give businessmen a positive environment by reducing taxes, cutting regulations, increasing security of property by protecting property rights, and providing a stable monetary system by controlling inflation.
For those old enough to remember, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was demanding the same thing in 1968 although then it was called a “guaranteed annual income.” A massive “Poor People's Campaign” was being planned for Washington D.C. at the time the civil rights leader died in Memphis.
The “Poor People's Campaign” was to feature a tent city in Washington with tens of thousands of demonstrators and continuous urban disruptions until demands were met.
Someone inform Bernie please. Calling Bernie Sanders.
...but if we do it here, we’ll do it right. I PROMISE !!!!
It failed because there were enough sensible people in Finland to see that it would have been a disaster to apply this madness to the entire population.
It is “guaranteed universal income” - free money to all. Anyone with any sense in their head can see that it would immediately start an inflationary spiral, with no end, and no way out of it. Plus it would attract all the lazy slobs who would gladly take the money without working.
I wish nothing but a life of misery for all those who seriously proposed this.