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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 75032344:MV8zNTcxODM1XzY0MjAwMDY0XzRGNTQ3MTFC] [quote:Weyoun:MV8zNTcxODM1XzY0MTkzNzk3X0NEQkI5NURB] [quote:Anonymous Coward 72338252:MV8zNTcxODM1XzY0MTkzMzU4X0Y2Qjg2RjlC]This plan is the opposite of Communism. [/quote] If you study how communist regimes come about, you will see the plan exactly is communist. What looks like utopia on paper turns into communist totalitarian dictatorship in practice. You are hung up on optimism and ideology and completely ignoring the the practical consequences and ripple/chain-effects, which history warns about over and over again. You are too arrogant in your own intellectual ability and think you can get it right, but fail to see how many before you thought the same thing and have gotten it wrong. [/quote] Wrong, you fail to realize, REPLACES half a dozen failed and bankrupt programs. US CITIZENS ONLY. [/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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