Austin City Council set to vote on $1.18 million guaranteed basic income plan

Fox News ^ | 4/20/22 | Paul Best

[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.

[DallasBiff]

"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".

[sasquatch]

And who doesn’t like Santa Claus?

[Vision]

Insanity.

[Seruzawa]

Fools. We are surrounded and infiltrated by fools.

[Flavious_Maximus]

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!

[BitWielder1]

Great. Take away all incentives to become a productive citizen.

[TexasGator]

[Regulator]

” cash payments to citizens “

They’ll limit to citizens?

Hilarious

[EEGator]

Beautiful. I lived around the way from a homeless camp in the woods of Gainesville FL.

[DIRTYSECRET]

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?

[Bob434]

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

[Jeff Chandler]

I want a guaranteed basic income, but it’s got to be at least 80G a year.

[EEGator]

Potentially a bit excessive…

[Little Ray]

There are about a million people in Austin. I don’t think that sum is going very far.

[ClearCase_guy]

Hey, if they give me $1.18 Million a year, I could probably pay most of my bills, so I’m in favor. [/s]

[dforest]

What if Santa runs out of toys?

[Vortex]

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).

[rktman]

Keep Austin Stoopid. Now, where can we get us some? Oh, we make a dollar per year too much. Sorry!

[wardamneagle]

Austin, Dallas, Houston, maybe a couple more in TX, they all
have what? BINGO.....Dem mayors...

[dforest]

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.