Why Republicans are fighting the basic-income programs many cities and states are adopting: 'Is money a birthright now?'
Why Republicans are fighting the basic-income programs many cities and states are adopting: 'Is money a birthright now?'
Republican lawmakers from five states are seeking to ban guaranteed basic-income programs, citing costs for taxpayers.
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How else are you supposed to stabilize a highly-developed postindustrial economy with increasingly rare opportunities to get ahead for most of the population? Didn't you people read your Friedrich Hayek?
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How else are you supposed to stabilize a highly-developed postindustrial economy with increasingly rare opportunities to get ahead for most of the population?
glances at the command economy model
You're not going to like the answer.
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Hayek was for private money, not infinite debt to pay for UBI?
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Infinite debt? You've never heard of paying for things with taxes?
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Have you ever looked at a budget in your life?
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Are you just chatting me up now? Because you're certainly not addressing anything I said.
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Are you just chatting me up now? Because you’re certainly not answering anything I asked.
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IDK, he seemed pretty clear when he said that "the assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself, appears not only to be a wholly legitimate protection against a common risk to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born."
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Social security isn't UBI.
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Sorry, what does "certain minimum income" mean in your native language?
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Sorry, what does "even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself" in your native language?
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Hey, are you also referring to Negative Income Tax by Friedman?
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