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"Universal Basic Income" makes sense even for Republicans IF they actually do the math.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 74349541:MV8zNTcxODM1XzYzNzkxNTcxXzI4REMxNw==] [quote:Anonymous Coward 73424523:MV8zNTcxODM1XzYzNzkxNDcwXzc2RUQ4NkI2] [quote:Fret Wiz:MV8zNTcxODM1XzYzNzkxMzE0XzIyOTVGM0FD] [quote:Anonymous Coward 75011669:MV8zNTcxODM1XzRENEZFNkVE] "Universal Basic Income" makes sense even for Republicans IF they actually do the math. [/quote] No it doesn't. You're trying to shift what are already far too many federal dollars in welfare entitlements to another entitlement, ostensibly disguised as 'entitlement for all', which is the OPPOSITE of entitlement. *This* conservative mind would prefer elimination of 85% of those dollars and a working, productive population. Math? Shuffling money around like that isn't math, it's closer to laundering. lol. [/quote] You're getting hung up on semantics. It isn't laundering, it's reallocating. The us government does it all the time. Cant argue with your productivity point, but what do you suggest happens when automation occurs? In 10 years fast food restaurants will be completely roboticized. Physical retail is going the wayside of online retail. Soon, the bottom end of the economy will go belly up. What do we do then, condemn the working class to a fate worse than the gradually eroded middle class? Will we all be forced to move to other continents? Will the top class move exclusively to exports? [/quote] Semantics get me all the time. The laundering comment was more flippant, not completely serious. You bring up a good point about automation & retail sectors, but it's the same point that's been made since the Industrial revolution began. It seems to me that there's a simpler balance of supply and demand that defies all of this. Horses became useless when the Auto went mainstream, but they didn't, did they? Henry Ford was going to eliminate the factory worker, but it didn't end up to be true. We seem to always find a way to service other humans that need shit, you know? [/quote]
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Instead of just reflexively opposing a Basic Income in the US, the Republicans should actually look at the advantages.
If the new Basic Income Law is passed so that it completely REPLACES welfare payments, food stamps, Social Security payments, disability payments, and ALL other government payments, the savings in paper shuffling and bureaucracy alone would pay for the new program.
Also, by writing the new law to apply to "US Citizens ONLY," it would eliminate Billions of dollars in payments to illegals in all of those replaced programs.
A Basic Income would also increase the buying power for retailers, etc. This idea makes perfect sense from both a liberal and conservative perspective.
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