Posted on 11/25/2022 2:26:50 PM PST by karpov
Imagine that a progressive American city creates a financial incentive for residents to “transition” from man to woman or from woman to man.
That’s exactly what San Francisco has just done with a program called Guaranteed Income for Transgender People, or GIFT .
This is like using a fire hose to spray a burning skyscraper with gasoline. Talk about perverse incentives.
Anyone want to bet that, if this program expands, the number of San Francisco’s poor who say they identify as transgender also will expand?
Of course, San Francisco already is a lab for bad policy ideas. But giving guaranteed income to low-income residents who say they identify as transgender is surely next-level dumb.
The GIFT pilot program “will provide 55 eligible residents with $1,200 per month for 18 months, as well as health care and financial coaching,” the Los Angeles Times explains .
This scheme fuses bad fiscal policy with bad social policy. And the whole will be worse than the sum of its parts.
To see why, let’s look at the details.
First, note that this program doesn’t provide so-called universal basic income. It doesn’t target the whole population or even those in greatest financial need, but rather those with the greatest status in the intersectional hierarchy. In this case, that means residents, including minors, living at the intersection of economic poverty and transgender identity.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
i am a biological male
i identify as female
but express myself as male
where is my check?
i would have to see a picture first
the tutu should be pink
just post it here on FR
Basic economics 101
Tax something and you’ll get less of it.
Subsidize something and you’ll get more of it.
They’re a little late. The new trend, now that the publicity train has left the money station for transexuals, is to jump on the new publicity money train with claims that they were coerced into transexuality by overadvocating counselors and medical staff.
Pink? That’s worth another $3,000 a month.
City motto for San Francisco:
Deuteronomy 22:5
“A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.”
Oh, wait, must have been somewhere else.
Leviticus 20:13
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
No, not San Francisco’s either.
Can you double your income by transitioning twice?
Asking for a friend.
Good observation!
“”nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak””
No wonder Islamic wackos hate Christianity. They hide behind women, and wear women’s clothes trying to escape.
The program is illegal wrong and unconstitutional. Any law that allows it is invalid.
Create a lucrative enough entitlement with a low enough bar and you will get applications from 500 percent of the eligible population.
Trannies get to spend their lives unloved.
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