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Another Massachusetts city will try giving thousands of dollars directly to low-income residents
Cbsnews ^ | 10/16/2024 | Neal Riley

Posted on 10/16/2024 7:08:45 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

SALEM - Salem is the latest city in Massachusetts to test out a guaranteed income program that would give thousands of dollars directly to its poorest residents.

The Uplift Salem initiative will give $500 a month to 100 Salem residents for an entire year. There's no restrictions on how recipients can spend the income.

"We want Salem to be an affordable place for everyone, and a guaranteed income program offers an innovative approach to help achieve that goal," Salem Mayor Dominick Pangallo said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: city; dollars; lowincome; massachusetts
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They want the city to be affordable and they're going to give away tax dollars to do that??? Am I missing something??? Massachusetts is stuck on Stupid permanently.
1 posted on 10/16/2024 7:08:45 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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i see much fentanyl in salem’s future...

:-/


2 posted on 10/16/2024 7:12:52 PM PDT by SteveH
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3 posted on 10/16/2024 7:14:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Salem MA liberals really are stuck on stupid. Very stupid. Very, very stupid.


4 posted on 10/16/2024 7:19:04 PM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.” — Ronald Reagan


5 posted on 10/16/2024 7:19:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So, this is the city they named that cigarette after!


6 posted on 10/16/2024 7:21:13 PM PDT by lee martell
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Now boys, everybody knows it’s intentions that matter, not results.


7 posted on 10/16/2024 7:29:29 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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8 posted on 10/16/2024 7:30:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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9 posted on 10/16/2024 7:31:17 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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There's no restrictions on how recipients can spend the income.

If it's income why isn't the IRS taxing it ?
10 posted on 10/16/2024 7:32:04 PM PDT by stylin19a (America-has citizens who will cross an ocean to fight for freedom but won't cross the street to vote)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
― Margaret Thatcher


11 posted on 10/16/2024 7:33:09 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Where will the giveaway money come from? Bet they don’t have a surplus... and cities and states can’t print the stuff, at least not yet.

So what will those wise city leaders now take away from their hard-working citizens IN ADDITION TO their tax dollars? Police and fire protection? Street cleaning and repair? Reliable water and power? Libraries?

Or will they just jack taxes until folks get fed up and become conservatives and either leave or vote ‘em out?


12 posted on 10/16/2024 7:33:12 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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>> So, this is the city they named that cigarette after!

Nah, that one’s in NC. “Winston-Salem”

This is the city that became famous for killing witches. Now they’re more enlightened — they HIRE their witches to teach in their schools and work in their government, and some of ‘em they elect to run the place! Into the ground, apparently.


13 posted on 10/16/2024 7:35:50 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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>> If it’s income why isn’t the IRS taxing it ?

Somebody’s cruisin’ for a stint in re-education camp! Don’t make me come over there!!


14 posted on 10/16/2024 7:37:06 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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No, it was named for where “witches” went to be tortured and slaughtered.


15 posted on 10/16/2024 7:39:33 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I've come to the conclusion that the world is made up of millions of Three Stooges comedians.)
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They have a great museum in that town, the Peabody and Essex Museum, but the rest of the town is not someplace I like.

And every year, I hear people expressing their wish to go to Salem on Halloween.

Those people are idiots. That place gets absolutely creepy and stupid for the month before and the month after. It is like every single weirdo in the country has a need to make a pilgrimage there.

So the fact they will do this does not surprise me one single bit.


16 posted on 10/16/2024 7:43:30 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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They ‘hire’ their Witches?
Some Math and English tutors probably could have been hired using that same fiscal budget.


17 posted on 10/16/2024 7:47:42 PM PDT by lee martell
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Wow! Guaranteed income! How do I sign up for this? Oh, wait … I work like a dog for my money, so I’m not poor! Oh darn.


18 posted on 10/16/2024 7:55:41 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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Portland: “Hold my IPA, bro.”
19 posted on 10/16/2024 7:56:27 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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How about giving them 500 per month for 40 hours work for the city?


20 posted on 10/16/2024 7:59:58 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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