The problem with UBI is that it will/would never be replacement for other welfare programs and combined with both the Chamber of Commerce and the leftards love of open borders you can imagine the attraction for an illegal family of 6 to get to the US for $72k a year plus free medical. Giving a meth head or heroin addict $1,000 is just stoking an out of control fire with gasoline and expecting a good result. Hell, if we let employees hire full time employees then at $10 an hour working 4 40 hour weeks a month gets you $1,600. And yet we hear that we need more illegals because $10 an hour jobs aren’t being filled. It shouldn’t be acceptable that able bodied US residents can collect a ton of money for Section 8 housing, Medicaid, free education, food stamps and obamaphones with no work requirements. Then toss in the massive fraud associated with the federal earned income tax credit.
See my rant about tying to performance.
Pee in a bottle - $1500.
Don't pee in a bottle - $250.
#racistimsure
Will the throbber watch to enforce no use of whizinator?
My two concerns with UBI are that it may have the unintended consequences of raising inflation and depressing wages
The Throbber is already depressed about half the time.
Porn helps.
You watched that porn because you think there's still hope. But Throbber, the only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead, and the sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a MAGAmerican's supposed to function. Without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All Republican economic policy depends on it.
Old school UBI'ists view UBI as a moar better replacement for all of our bureaucratic welfare programs.
Yang does not view it as a "replacement" so it will never happen. Then again, it will never happen as a replacement either. Too many entrenched interests.
Yang does view it as a replacement for everything but SS and Vets benefits, not sure where youre seeing that. Under his idea, you can’t get both and he theorizes that eventually the vast majority of people would take UBI because there are no preconditions.
Hmmm interesting. I watched interviews with him before and he skirted "replacement" of existing benefits. It looks like he's bit the bullet on that and is attempting to sell it as a replacement. *applause
If he drops the gun control pandering I might be on the Yangtrain.
The problem is you cannot run as pro 2nd Amendment in the modern Democratic Party. There is no place for you. One of their 25 ideological purity tests. So I do find him to be interesting and way more on top of his positions than any other candidate they have trotted out, but he is still DOA to me.
Eh, these days it's just a meaningless box to check. Despite all of the public outcry and bold statements from Congressional dems, there are still yet to be any bills passed in recent history that could be considered a meaningful affront to the 2nd amendment.
Not for lack of trying. At the state and local dems have at times been very successful. Feds have banned assault rifles for a time. Flash suppressor equals assault rifle.
Comments
Lacking compassion.
Flash suppressor equals assault rifle.