So guaranteeing a lazy asshole in Oklahoma an income will make him not be lazy.
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Nothing's changed with him; he has that already.
So the point is that overall it would be cheaper and more efficient to provide a cash subsidy in lieu of the all the special program bullshit (housing, job training, health insurance, food stamps, etc) and let the free market dictate the outcomes? Eliminate a massive amount of bureaucracy / overhead and let market forces work? Even for the perennially unemployed? It does sound compellling.
So guaranteeing a lazy asshole in Oklahoma an income will make him not be lazy.
Right
Nothing's changed with him; he has that already.
So the point is that overall it would be cheaper and more efficient to provide a cash subsidy in lieu of the all the special program bullshit (housing, job training, health insurance, food stamps, etc) and let the free market dictate the outcomes? Eliminate a massive amount of bureaucracy / overhead and let market forces work? Even for the perennially unemployed? It does sound compellling.
So guaranteeing a lazy asshole in Oklahoma an income will make him not be lazy.
Right
Nothing's changed with him; he has that already.
So the point is that overall it would be cheaper and more efficient to provide a cash subsidy in lieu of the all the special program bullshit (housing, job training, health insurance, food stamps, etc) and let the free market dictate the outcomes? Eliminate a massive amount of bureaucracy / overhead and let market forces work? Even for the perennially unemployed? It does sound compellling.
So guaranteeing a lazy asshole in Oklahoma an income will make him not be lazy.
Right
Nothing's changed with him; he has that already.
So the point is that overall it would be cheaper and more efficient to provide a cash subsidy in lieu of the all the special program bullshit (housing, job training, health insurance, food stamps, etc) and let the free market dictate the outcomes? Eliminate a massive amount of bureaucracy / overhead and let market forces work? Even for the perennially unemployed? It does sound compellling.
I certainly missed the lectures in Econ 101 about per-capita equal Government handouts of monetized dollars to induce ekonomic activity. Can you fill me in?
I certainly missed the lectures in Econ 101 about per-capita equal Government handouts of monetized dollars to induce ekonomic activity. Can you fill me in?
Sorry, I took Econ not ekon. Share with us the beauty of monetization and dollar destruction so you and me are given free money by the government to spend on shit.
What happens when they spend the cash on gambling, cheap booze, pills, junk food, cell phones, TV's etc.? Because I'm pretty sure that will happen. Then the idiotic liberals will whine about it, and all the programs will just be reinstated.
So just giving people what they need to live will motivate them to increase their skills to compete for better jobs.
Hmmm... since I was given the opportunity to post here for free. I didn't take the extra step of generating a Gene Wilder meme with the above paragraph in it as would be appropriate.
The motivation wasn't there. Some would call that human nature.
If you want to streamline poverty programs and welfare to make one efficient program I am in. Just like in healthcare, it is cheaper to write checks than run all these bullshit programs that manage to keep most of the money out of the people who need it hands.
But poverty isn't caused by a lack of money. Its caused by poor choices and human nature. That won't change just because you hand someone money. It will make it worse.
But we? aren't going to let them starve so finding better ways to help the helpless makes sense. Getting generational families out of poverty should be the goal.
Somewhere in there has to be work. Maybe an income to build those aqueducts from Washington to So Cal. Or the Fresno Bullet Train
Keep in mind if we do eliminate programs we eliminate the jobs that go with them. Catch 22
I? pay 40-50% of my income in taxes already so having it used better is a good thing. Producers are still going to produce because of the freedom it brings. But there is a point at which income will be hid or sent off shore by the producers. You have to keep the suckers paying in to keep the ponzi scheme afloat
In any UBI scenario you're are still going to have some unproductive people, well being unproductive, but we already have that at present with all the disincentives towards work- i.e., why go flip burgers when it pays basically the same as saying your back hurts and collecting disability? With UBI, they can keep the basic monthly cash stipend, and thus there is no disincentive towards going out to hustle some more bucks mowing lawns or changing sheets in a hotel.
It is incredibly difficult to get disability when your young. So the rest of your poont is moot.
Welfare recipients use their EBT card at the strip club. You think their "housing" portion of their cash handout isn't going to 40's and crack? You'll just have a huge number of homeless welfare dipshits floating around.
Your guaranteed basic income is fucking $0.00 Work for welfare is the answer.
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You really think there are enough small thinkers willing to permanently surrender their futures to get this passed for you?
Hmmm... since I was given the opportunity to post here for free. I didn't take the extra step of generating a Gene Wilder meme with the above paragraph in it as would be appropriate.
The motivation wasn't there. Some would call that human nature.
Your guaranteed basic income is fucking $0.00 Work for welfare is the answer.