kalm wrote:CID1990 wrote:
I’m glad they mentioned Alaska in their examples. That’s a /thread right there
BTW of all the people named in there, only one has any nonpolitical credibility.
I assume Hayek?
Btw, Alaska was brought up in the OP and supporting link.
Thanks for reading, you lazy summofabitch.
Well in spite of Jelly's zero sum assumptions about conservatives...
I have actually come out several times for a guaranteed income - and everybody under 100k or so per year gets it-
but I also believe it would be impossible to implement in a way that 1) actually keeps people from starving or dying of exposure and 2) doesnt create additional strains between the creators and the consumers
Alaska is a great example - they are still stratified, they still have poverty that runs same same with northeastern states... and the Federal government actually adjusts the number below which a person is considered to be "in poverty" to be higher than the rest of the country. The only other state they do that with is Hawai'i. The reason for that in AK is obvious- the free market adjusted to the stipend incomes there. The same thing would happen in the lower 48. And as is usually the case with state sponsored handouts - the middle class would be the more adversely affected by the inflation than any other class, while the lower classes would see little to no improvement in their situations over time
the rulemaking process for such a program alone would make the ACA looking like a legislative masterpiece
Which brings me back to the question Ive been asking on this board for literally years (and nobody has ventured an answer)...
Where does this trust in our government to do things right come from?
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