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  • dflea
    dflea Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,287 Swaye's Wigwam
    doogie said:

    Free income is fucked up theory pushed by academis

    I took care of the typo for you.

  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    doogie said:

    Free income is fucked up theory pushed by academics

    Link to where this is taught anywhere. All I was taught in my econ classes was supply side economics.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Democratic National Convention.

    Is you're Google broken? Did you think this bullshit just apprared?
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    doogie said:

    Democratic National Convention.

    Is you're Google broken? Did you think this bullshit just apprared?

    Lol what does the DNC have to do with academies?
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    I'm enjoying doogie waxing eloquent about the poor kids at the yacht club
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    It's a shame you can't read. No wonder why you want free money
  • HoustonHusky
    HoustonHusky Member Posts: 5,999

    Jesus, some of you guys are just like a bunch of Middlebury students. Why don't you take some free time and actually read the Charles Murray paper posted earlier on universal basic income before trotting out the same tired cliches. Murray's conservative and libertarian chops are fucking legit people. It's all theoretical obviously at this point but he lays down some pretty solid arguments.

    What's to read? Cut benefits to all the poor and old people (which is what he actually proposes...replacing every single govt assistance program including Medicare, SS, Medicaid, Disability, Earned Income Tax credit, Foodstamps, etc with $10k a year in money and $3k a year for medical) sounds great in theory, but you are FS if you think that will ever happen. And if you are trying to sell what he said as anything different you are just lying your ass off.

    And as he says if you don't do that then all of the critics of a "basic income" will probably be underestimating how bad implementing it would be.

    But carry on now with your pipe dreams...
  • CirrhosisDawg
    CirrhosisDawg Member Posts: 6,390

    Jesus, some of you guys are just like a bunch of Middlebury students. Why don't you take some free time and actually read the Charles Murray paper posted earlier on universal basic income before trotting out the same tired cliches. Murray's conservative and libertarian chops are fucking legit people. It's all theoretical obviously at this point but he lays down some pretty solid arguments.

    What's to read? Cut benefits to all the poor and old people (which is what he actually proposes...replacing every single govt assistance program including Medicare, SS, Medicaid, Disability, Earned Income Tax credit, Foodstamps, etc with $10k a year in money and $3k a year for medical) sounds great in theory, but you are FS if you think that will ever happen. And if you are trying to sell what he said as anything different you are just lying your ass off.

    And as he says if you don't do that then all of the critics of a "basic income" will probably be underestimating how bad implementing it would be.

    But carry on now with your pipe dreams...
    Calm down Cletus. The best thing about libertarians is the creativity of their ideas. In an era where our last presidential election was trump-Clinton, any new ideas are welcome. Theoretically appealing but practically implausible? Yeah, probably. At least someone is trying to think of better solutions.
  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,035 Standard Supporter
    edited September 2017
    The idea has been around since the 60's. And it tanks when it's realized that we're theorizing about the impossible: That poor people can be smart and good with money. Kind of a self-explanatory oxymoron.
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381

    The idea has been around since the 60's. And it tanks when it's realized that we're theorizing about the impossible: That poor people can be smart and good with money. Kind of a self-explanatory oxymoron.

    125 years ago we didn't trust poor people (who were a much larger fraction of society) with the vote. Or anybody with a vagina for that matter.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072

    Jesus, some of you guys are just like a bunch of Middlebury students. Why don't you take some free time and actually read the Charles Murray paper posted earlier on universal basic income before trotting out the same tired cliches. Murray's conservative and libertarian chops are fucking legit people. It's all theoretical obviously at this point but he lays down some pretty solid arguments.

    What's to read? Cut benefits to all the poor and old people (which is what he actually proposes...replacing every single govt assistance program including Medicare, SS, Medicaid, Disability, Earned Income Tax credit, Foodstamps, etc with $10k a year in money and $3k a year for medical) sounds great in theory, but you are FS if you think that will ever happen. And if you are trying to sell what he said as anything different you are just lying your ass off.

    And as he says if you don't do that then all of the critics of a "basic income" will probably be underestimating how bad implementing it would be.

    But carry on now with your pipe dreams...
    Calm down Cletus. The best thing about libertarians is the creativity of their ideas. In an era where our last presidential election was trump-Clinton, any new ideas are welcome. Theoretically appealing but practically implausible? Yeah, probably. At least someone is trying to think of better solutions.
    As long as Somebody is Trying, that's all that matters.
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,753 Standard Supporter
    The problem is that nothing is free or guaranteed in life. HTH
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    I'm curious, why all the outrage over something that'll never happen? Like who is really calling for basic income that actually has any power to do so?
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Denial is strong with this one
  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    This most makes me rwa
    AZDuck said:

    The idea has been around since the 60's. And it tanks when it's realized that we're theorizing about the impossible: That poor people can be smart and good with money. Kind of a self-explanatory oxymoron.

    125 years ago we didn't trust poor people (who were a much larger fraction of society) with the vote. Or anybody with a vagina for that matter.
    Still okay with those
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    doogie said:

    Denial is strong with this one

    Things losers say when they know they've lost the argument.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,046
    doogie said:

    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.

    I like to come to a football message board that happens to have a sub forum for general chitchat and lecture the local degenerates on all of the economic theory I picked up from the three Econ classes I took at North Seattle community college. That's what I like to do.

    Please - tell me all about your theories on going back to the gold standard. Or better yet, why don't you just go drown yourself in the bathtub.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,046
    dflea said:

    doogie said:

    Free income is fucked up theory pushed by academis

    I took care of the typo for you.

    Free income! Can I have some?
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Alternative Minimum Tax

    The end.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    doogie said:

    Alternative Minimum Tax

    The end.

    Something you've never paid.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    What I thought.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    doogie said:

    What I thought.

    You are the dude who keeps arguing nonsense long after you've been beaten down.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Keep the DNC promise of #freeshit alive!
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    How many subjects are your going change this thread?
  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,035 Standard Supporter
    AZDuck said:

    The idea has been around since the 60's. And it tanks when it's realized that we're theorizing about the impossible: That poor people can be smart and good with money. Kind of a self-explanatory oxymoron.

    125 years ago we didn't trust poor people (who were a much larger fraction of society) with the vote. Or anybody with a vagina for that matter.
    Greatest time to be alive, ever.
  • Gwad
    Gwad Member Posts: 2,855
    “We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.” - Buckminster Fuller

    This guy's poop was probably smarter than the whole Hardcore Husky think tank.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,046
    Gwad said:

    “We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.” - Buckminster Fuller

    This guy's poop was probably smarter than the whole Hardcore Husky think tank.

    Yeeup. But that also went over he heads of all but three guys in this bored, and sled never had a chance.
  • Gwad
    Gwad Member Posts: 2,855
    Well TLDR; the notion that people should be living with more than they need, while others live with less than what they need is shit.