"Universal Basic Income" makes sense even for Republicans IF they actually do the math. | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70958538 United States 07/07/2017 12:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | END ALL of the other bloated government payout programs. Social Security (which is going bankrupt anyway), welfare, food stamps, disability and any other government payouts. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75011669 Make it clear that the new program and law is ONLY for "US CITIZENS." OK OP, since you're still here, you said this would make sense to Republicans if we actually do the math. So let's do the math OP. How much would this "basic income" be per month? |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 75011669 United States 07/07/2017 12:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Universal Basic Income" is for lazy people that dont want to work. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74803433 Some yes. But what it actually does is REPLACE ALL of the outdated and wasteful old programs with a new simple, streamlined and efficient program for US citizens only. It also improves the buying power of poor people and gets more money into the economy since poor people actually spend their money. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 75011669 United States 07/07/2017 12:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | END ALL of the other bloated government payout programs. Social Security (which is going bankrupt anyway), welfare, food stamps, disability and any other government payouts. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75011669 Make it clear that the new program and law is ONLY for "US CITIZENS." OK OP, since you're still here, you said this would make sense to Republicans if we actually do the math. So let's do the math OP. How much would this "basic income" be per month? I would say $2000 per adult, $1000 per dependent while ENDING ALL of the existing programs. The bureaucratic savings alone would be tremendous as well as the dumping of all the illegals off of those programs. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 70958538 United States 07/07/2017 12:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you took the GROSS yearly box office revenues of all of American cinema, it would pay for a universal income for every adult in the US of a whopping $42 per year. Quoting: R. Wordsworth So, who are we going to rob next? Where you getting these numbers from? Also please include all forms of entertainment, such as pro sports and TV shows. OK, still collecting data... but if we also rob the NBA and NFL of all their revenue, that's another 12 billion or so a year on top of the motion picture industry theft. So, we're up to roughly $100 a year for every adult in the US. Keep in mind that tens of thousands of people would be out of jobs at this point... these numbers are coming from taxing every dollar Americans spend on these industries, not just reducing Tom Brady's contract to $50,000 per year. So, load up the black helicopters and SWAT trucks, I guess we're gonna have to Venezuela the fuck out of TV now because we're just not getting it done here. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 74958647 United States 07/07/2017 12:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you took the GROSS yearly box office revenues of all of American cinema, it would pay for a universal income for every adult in the US of a whopping $42 per year. Quoting: R. Wordsworth So, who are we going to rob next? Where you getting these numbers from? Also please include all forms of entertainment, such as pro sports and TV shows. OK, still collecting data... but if we also rob the NBA and NFL of all their revenue, that's another 12 billion or so a year on top of the motion picture industry theft. So, we're up to roughly $100 a year for every adult in the US. Keep in mind that tens of thousands of people would be out of jobs at this point... these numbers are coming from taxing every dollar Americans spend on these industries, not just reducing Tom Brady's contract to $50,000 per year. So, load up the black helicopters and SWAT trucks, I guess we're gonna have to Venezuela the fuck out of TV now because we're just not getting it done here. Ok now take away all the needless spending, reduce military budget, cut foreign aid, eliminate NASA, etcetc. There's a lot of money being wasted. Also how about some stipulations? Jobless bums get nothing. Only those who are doing the best they can and working but it's not good enough and they still struggle. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70958538 United States 07/07/2017 12:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OK OP, since you're still here, you said this would make sense to Republicans if we actually do the math. Quoting: R. Wordsworth So let's do the math OP. How much would this "basic income" be per month? I would say $2000 per adult, $1000 per dependent while ENDING ALL of the existing programs. The bureaucratic savings alone would be tremendous as well as the dumping of all the illegals off of those programs. That would cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 6 trillion dollars per year. We only collect about 3 trillion per year in taxes. Eliminating all other welfare programs and social security would save us a trillion, but that leaves us still 2 trillion per year short just to pay for the universal income nevermind the rest of our budget. Where's the money gonna come from OP??? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 73424523 United States 07/07/2017 12:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you took the GROSS yearly box office revenues of all of American cinema, it would pay for a universal income for every adult in the US of a whopping $42 per year. Quoting: R. Wordsworth So, who are we going to rob next? Where you getting these numbers from? Also please include all forms of entertainment, such as pro sports and TV shows. OK, still collecting data... but if we also rob the NBA and NFL of all their revenue, that's another 12 billion or so a year on top of the motion picture industry theft. So, we're up to roughly $100 a year for every adult in the US. Keep in mind that tens of thousands of people would be out of jobs at this point... these numbers are coming from taxing every dollar Americans spend on these industries, not just reducing Tom Brady's contract to $50,000 per year. So, load up the black helicopters and SWAT trucks, I guess we're gonna have to Venezuela the fuck out of TV now because we're just not getting it done here. Social programs cost 668 bil a year 332 million citizens Roughly 2000 dollars per citizen. Now, an issue arises if too many people don't work. Part of that 668 bil a year comes from middle class taxes. Here's a solution. Require work, or create a local aggregator app that all corporations or even people with work can post volunteer based non-skilled positions. It could be tied to your SS number so that the amount of work could be checked. Give the disabled an option to keep their disability and determine how much work they would be able to do. This would further free up economic resources. Free labor (kinda, it isn't slavery) for the ones making a lot of money. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 75011669 United States 07/07/2017 12:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP - you keep throwing terms like "poor people" and "working class" around, yet are advocating basic income 'for all'. Quoting: Fret Wiz Wut up wit dat? :chappelle wat: I mean a income if you are unemployed or underemployed. If you are making more than $2000 per month, you dont get anything. If you are making less than that, you get the difference so that you make $2000. If you become unemployed, you get the $2000, VERY simple. YES, I know that it would make low end workers not want to work but it would then make employers HAVE to pay more. It would be a different type of economy but once it settled in, I believe it makes very sound economic sense especially by ENDING ALL of the existing programs. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 39516942 United States 07/07/2017 12:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Instead of just reflexively opposing a Basic Income in the US, the Republicans should actually look at the advantages. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75011669 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. Great..I'm sick of busting my ass every day..been doing it for 32 years..I'll let the chumps give me a free ride...What a DUMB concept. We have basic income..it's called WELFARE..and we have millions of welfare rats as it is |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 75011669 United States 07/07/2017 12:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP - you keep throwing terms like "poor people" and "working class" around, yet are advocating basic income 'for all'. Quoting: Fret Wiz Wut up wit dat? :chappelle wat: I mean a income if you are unemployed or underemployed. If you are making more than $2000 per month, you dont get anything. If you are making less than that, you get the difference so that you make $2000. If you become unemployed, you get the $2000, VERY simple. YES, I know that it would make low end workers not want to work but it would then make employers HAVE to pay more. It would be a different type of economy but once it settled in, I believe it makes very sound economic sense especially by ENDING ALL of the existing programs. Oh but even workers who are making more than the $2000 per month and do not qualify for the income payments, they still get the $1000 per child to help pay for child care etc. Unless they start making over $150,000. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 73424523 United States 07/07/2017 12:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP - you keep throwing terms like "poor people" and "working class" around, yet are advocating basic income 'for all'. Quoting: Fret Wiz Wut up wit dat? :chappelle wat: I mean a income if you are unemployed or underemployed. If you are making more than $2000 per month, you dont get anything. If you are making less than that, you get the difference so that you make $2000. If you become unemployed, you get the $2000, VERY simple. YES, I know that it would make low end workers not want to work but it would then make employers HAVE to pay more. It would be a different type of economy but once it settled in, I believe it makes very sound economic sense especially by ENDING ALL of the existing programs. Oh... I disagree here completely. The numbers should only be valid if they are given to each person. Your idea here would DEFINITELY give people incentive to not work. Why would you want to get a job below 2000 if you can just collect it? |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 75011669 United States 07/07/2017 12:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Instead of just reflexively opposing a Basic Income in the US, the Republicans should actually look at the advantages. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75011669 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. Great..I'm sick of busting my ass every day..been doing it for 32 years..I'll let the chumps give me a free ride...What a DUMB concept. We have basic income..it's called WELFARE..and we have millions of welfare rats as it is The welfare programs and welfare cheats, illegals getting welfare, etc, will END. US CITIZENS ONLY will be written into the new program and law. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 74958647 United States 07/07/2017 12:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OK OP, since you're still here, you said this would make sense to Republicans if we actually do the math. Quoting: R. Wordsworth So let's do the math OP. How much would this "basic income" be per month? I would say $2000 per adult, $1000 per dependent while ENDING ALL of the existing programs. The bureaucratic savings alone would be tremendous as well as the dumping of all the illegals off of those programs. That would cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 6 trillion dollars per year. We only collect about 3 trillion per year in taxes. Eliminating all other welfare programs and social security would save us a trillion, but that leaves us still 2 trillion per year short just to pay for the universal income nevermind the rest of our budget. Where's the money gonna come from OP??? Walmart record profits and their employees make peanuts. It's simple,force employers to pay their employees more, without raising prices. Greedy ass corporations are the problem. That and bloated government spending. But let's send a few more billion to isreal though. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 39516942 United States 07/07/2017 01:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Instead of just reflexively opposing a Basic Income in the US, the Republicans should actually look at the advantages. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75011669 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. Great..I'm sick of busting my ass every day..been doing it for 32 years..I'll let the chumps give me a free ride...What a DUMB concept. We have basic income..it's called WELFARE..and we have millions of welfare rats as it is The welfare programs and welfare cheats, illegals getting welfare, etc, will END. US CITIZENS ONLY will be written into the new program and law. sure it will LOL..Just like only citizens should get benefits now. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75140353 Sweden 07/07/2017 01:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That is the stupidest idea I've heard in my life. So, why work? Why should I or anyone bust their ass at work and pay taxes to pay some lazy assholes money they didn't earn? Where is any incentive to invent anything or work overtime or pay taxes or anything? You are a fucking socialist dreaming of some utopia where everything is free. Grow up. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68538185 Why work when there are robots? Sure, you can leave the work-place, but you will not have much to show for. If you think that is so great, then go for it. You seem fed up with your current tasks. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70958538 United States 07/07/2017 01:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Walmart record profits and their employees make peanuts. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74958647 It's simple,force employers to pay their employees more, without raising prices. Force them to pay more without raising prices? How did that work out for Venezuela. Walmart makes about 13 billion per year in net income. If they took all of that and gave it to their 2 million employees, it would be about $500 bucks more per month. But then, the stockholders wouldn't make any money. So why would they keep their ownership? They would all sell their stocks, greatly reducing the value of the company. When Walmart needed operating income for expansion, repairs, or renovation, it would now have to come out of their employees pay. So that $500 per month wouldn't always even be there. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 71690411 United States 07/07/2017 01:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hmm..Why will the rich give you free money to exist? You better answer this one correctly....They won't. You wish a parasitic relationship with your governmental host. It will just get rid of you in the end. After all...What purpose do you have for existing? Receiving free stuff is not a valid answer. |
Underground_Dude User ID: 74834921 United States 07/07/2017 01:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Instead of just reflexively opposing a Basic Income in the US, the Republicans should actually look at the advantages. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75011669 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. Better yet let's do away with all that and not spend the money we saved at all, especially considering we're in the hole by trillions of dollars already. Get the gov out of healthcare and we'd save even more money. Basic Income is just another welfare payment under a different name. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 72721528 United States 07/07/2017 01:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Universal Basic Income is inevitable as AI and Tech take more and more jobs. It may even begin in this lifetime. If we don't rapture out in the next 100 years, the idea of having to work [as we define work now] in order to eat and have a roof over your head will seem outlandish. A future society will identify or even genetically create skills and aptitudes and humans will be put into positions that society requires. ..or we destroy a big chunk of the planet and start from scratch...working the land... ...or we rapture out soon, Jesus takes care of evil at Armageddon and we live in peace for 1,000 years.... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 74349541 United States 07/07/2017 01:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP - you keep throwing terms like "poor people" and "working class" around, yet are advocating basic income 'for all'. Quoting: Fret Wiz ... I mean a income if you are unemployed or underemployed. If you are making more than $2000 per month, you dont get anything. If you are making less than that, you get the difference so that you make $2000. If you become unemployed, you get the $2000, VERY simple. YES, I know that it would make low end workers not want to work but it would then make employers HAVE to pay more. It would be a different type of economy but once it settled in, I believe it makes very sound economic sense especially by ENDING ALL of the existing programs. "Universal Basic Income" is no so universal after all then. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75131326 United States 07/07/2017 02:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The United States will not go any further down the road to socialism. I do empathize with those soulless fools who were farmed for their vote, however I am not in favor of subsidizing them further. Yes, it is pathetic that we have so many animals masquerading as humans, let's let the democrats care for tem, 'cause THEY GREW 'EM. TAKE CARE OF YOUR PETS DEMONCRAPS |
BRIEF User ID: 65696907 United States 07/07/2017 03:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I believe work = money There's always the retards and gimps that a civilized society must take care of, but that's where it should end. No workey no money, got it? I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked. |
Larry D. Croc User ID: 70736097 United States 07/07/2017 03:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It would cost 1.5 trillion per year to give every adult in America $500 per month... not even enough to live on. Quoting: R. Wordsworth In order to do that without borrowing money, we would have to raise the taxes of every working age American by $1000 per month... I guess that would be a net $500 per month. Do you have $500 per month lying around? I guess just borrow more from our enemies then? There are many other alternatives. For example, there is a lot of empty land in this country. Why not start giving plots to families and letting them live how they want? That would be free, it would be up to the families to hunt, grow food, and survive. But that isn't even an option. Instead they want the poor on food stamps so they can go get full off poisonous fake food. These are the idle speculations of a fourteen year old being taught nonsense by someone who knows nothing. Characterized by a total lack of detail, no calculation skills, and a complete ignorance of how things really work. "Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell, where they already have it." Ronald Reagan The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." Ronald Reagan |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70541638 United States 07/07/2017 07:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OK OP, since you're still here, you said this would make sense to Republicans if we actually do the math. Quoting: R. Wordsworth So let's do the math OP. How much would this "basic income" be per month? I would say $2000 per adult, $1000 per dependent while ENDING ALL of the existing programs. The bureaucratic savings alone would be tremendous as well as the dumping of all the illegals off of those programs. That would cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 6 trillion dollars per year. We only collect about 3 trillion per year in taxes. Eliminating all other welfare programs and social security would save us a trillion, but that leaves us still 2 trillion per year short just to pay for the universal income nevermind the rest of our budget. Where's the money gonna come from OP??? You forget that he said ONLY people making less than $24,000 per year will get benefits. Children will get half to help families with childcare, college savings, etc. MOST, people will not collect benefits because they will want to make more than $24,000 per year but that safety net will be there. Replacing all the other programs will save a lot as well. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70541638 United States 07/07/2017 07:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I believe work = money Quoting: BRIEF There's always the retards and gimps that a civilized society must take care of, but that's where it should end. No workey no money, got it? Easy to say but it is NOT working that way at all. We have all of these programs that are funding non citizens and others that are going bankrupt. This is a very good idea that would solve many of those problems. |