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Go away commie ...
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in a 99% robot run society the only thing you will have is a feudal lord and master slaver , don't be suck a fucking idiot!

Bill gates the largest CAPITALIST in the world is promoting it! as they will supplant 99% of the work force by robots in a few years ....work will vocational and voluntary for a 5 year period after that you are retired ...

a robot can produce in a day what you can produce in 100 years
so that is the mathematics ....

its keeping you alive and happy after you become OBSOLETE !!

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Sorry, but it'll never make sense in my book.
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a robot can produce in a day what you can produce in 100 years
so that is the mathematics ....

its keeping you alive and happy after you become OBSOLETE !!

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nobody should be obsolete

only things that changes for human is his sense of usefulness
"what to do to be useful for society?"

well, no other animal on this planet is questioning this, why should be man be different?

even our ancestors in a cave didn't care about it. We care for this last two centuries, not more

so, this is civilization and cultural challenge and solutions have to be presented from early childhood

what's your new mission, little man? well, to learn more and more, to plant a tree and to care that water and air stay clean and to find a way to reach 10^23 planets out there in the universe... or something like that. there's always usefull job to be done.


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"Universal Basic Income" makes sense even for Republicans IF they actually do the math.
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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.
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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?
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You are supposing that Robotics will work and replace workers, so far the opposite is true. It just shifts the jobs from non technical to technical jobs of fixing the robotics.
In many of the places you mentioned where this was tried it was a failure. Either the AI could not keep up and do the job or the Customers for the most part rejected it, as in self checkouts, ordering kiosks, etc.
So maybe it would be a factor in another 50 or 100 years.
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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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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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Any "basic income" would be inflationary, eventually making it equal to zero $$$. Economics 101.

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Basic Universal income will only occur if there are no jobs at all for the lower socio economic groups.

It's the bread and circuses model of social destruction.
Rome had slaves. We have illegals.

Before you start a new payment plan,get rid of the downward pressure on wages by deporting 30 million illegals.
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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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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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"Replaces" and "US Citizens Only." Excellent idea.
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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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"US CITIZENS ONLY," and I agree.
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Also, by writing the new law to apply to "US Citizens ONLY,"

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Also, by writing the new law to apply to "US Citizens ONLY,"

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And that is why Democrats will doom us all.
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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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Bullshit !

It reduces the incentive to work, and replaces it with a dependence on the government. Exactly the opposite of what this country stands for.

Fuck off commie !!!
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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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Free money ... now why hasn't anyone thought of that before???

WAIT A MINUTE...... it HAS been tried before!!!!!!!!

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Dependence is not independence is it?

Government wants people dependent on government, that way they can make you jump through hoops by threatening to deny you what you're dependent on. This is really basic stuff.

Why do morons, aka libtards, always, and I mean always, want to give up on freedom?
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It'd be cheaper than the entitlements now.
It would eliminate thousands paperpusher jobs. It would eliminate waste, fraud,abuse.
Those working can choose to defer, and it is put into insured,iron clad,low yield account.
Social security cost now exceeds a trillion a year.
Welfare costs are hundreds of billions.
Snap costs a billion.
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It'd be cheaper than the entitlements now.
It would eliminate thousands paperpusher jobs. It would eliminate waste, fraud,abuse.
Those working can choose to defer, and it is put into insured,iron clad,low yield account.
Social security cost now exceeds a trillion a year.
Welfare costs are hundreds of billions.
Snap costs a billion.
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We don't like your tweet, no basic income for you!
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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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I...I have a very coherent and cohesive rebuttal to this but my brain is feeling kind mushy right now from the ignorance of the OP's post. I think my IQ has plummeted more than half than what it was.
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There is only ONE solution to the myriad of problems addressed in this thread.

We must all...




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But then again, there's that socialist disaster that just happened in Venezuela.

But that was because the elected leaders placed themselves above the economy and laundered the taxes into their own wallets. In that case, it becomes and issue of human morality rather than economic theory.

Lots of good arguments on both sides.
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No there are no good arguments for a socialist economy..never has worked anywhere in the world.....EVER
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Sure lets just get the damn show on the road, I'm tired of this slow eventual slide into the damn toilet.
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we need UBI now for the security of the nation and service to the common good !!
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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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"US CITIZENS ONLY," and I agree.
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also only those not incarcerated would receive the UBI , which would be a huge incentive for deterrence of crime.
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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.
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It doesn't have to be 100 percent socialism. Capitalism with a safety net. Hell we already have implemented socialist policies in the way of corporate subsidies.

If people aren't spending, the economy hits a plateau and then eventually degrades. UBI would allow people a small amount of money to aid with food and shelter allocation. Free up those resources, and people will be happier and more productive.

Of course, instead of UBI, we could tax the automated and put it back into welfare. But then were back to square one. UBI is the future short of national gentrification.
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Oh please. Do you even realize that this would cause inflation to skyrocket so much that the people would be worse off than they were before the 1000 per month was given to them.

The best solution to low wages is to either increase the amount of people looking to hire or lower the number of people looking for work. Either of those two points will raise the wages over time because employers would be forced to compete in order to attract employees.

And do you know what the easiest way to do this would be? Get rid of all the damn illegal aliens. Round up all those fuckers, throw them in jail, shoot them whatever. And when corrupt businesses no longer have a cheap/illegal way to hire employees they will be forced to hire American's and pay decent wages.
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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.
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It doesn't have to be 100 percent socialism. Capitalism with a safety net. Hell we already have implemented socialist policies in the way of corporate subsidies.

If people aren't spending, the economy hits a plateau and then eventually degrades. UBI would allow people a small amount of money to aid with food and shelter allocation. Free up those resources, and people will be happier and more productive.

Of course, instead of UBI, we could tax the automated and put it back into welfare. But then were back to square one. UBI is the future short of national gentrification.
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Oh please. Do you even realize that this would cause inflation to skyrocket so much that the people would be worse off than they were before the 1000 per month was given to them.

The best solution to low wages is to either increase the amount of people looking to hire or lower the number of people looking for work. Either of those two points will raise the wages over time because employers would be forced to compete in order to attract employees.

And do you know what the easiest way to do this would be? Get rid of all the damn illegal aliens. Round up all those fuckers, throw them in jail, shoot them whatever. And when corrupt businesses no longer have a cheap/illegal way to hire employees they will be forced to hire American's and pay decent wages.
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Get rid of illegals, yes. That still will not solve the automation that is replacing many middle income jobs. Or even low income jobs.
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But then again, there's that socialist disaster that just happened in Venezuela.

But that was because the elected leaders placed themselves above the economy and laundered the taxes into their own wallets. In that case, it becomes and issue of human morality rather than economic theory.

Lots of good arguments on both sides.
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No there are no good arguments for a socialist economy..never has worked anywhere in the world.....EVER
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Read the thread. This is not socialism, it is a new approach to social services and automation. This would REPLACE welfare, food stamps, social security, disability, etc, etc, and make ONE program for US Citizens ONLY. The Bureaucracy consolidation alone would pay for it.
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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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I don’t think it does, a basic income would mean it could provide basic things so in a place like West Virginia 1k might pay rent with enough left over for a weeks worth of groceries but in LA it would only afford a weeks worth of groceries. So then it would be unfair that 1k in rural and poor areas would be a basic income but in other areas it would be virtually nothing. So would you determine the amount based off zip code? Well now that’s unfair since some one in LA might get 2500 as basic while the guy in West Virginia is only getting 1k.

Who pays the taxes which supplies this UBI? Employers? Employees? A new payroll tax? Do people still get welfare? Do people still get social security?
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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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I don’t think it does, a basic income would mean it could provide basic things so in a place like West Virginia 1k might pay rent with enough left over for a weeks worth of groceries but in LA it would only afford a weeks worth of groceries. So then it would be unfair that 1k in rural and poor areas would be a basic income but in other areas it would be virtually nothing. So would you determine the amount based off zip code? Well now that’s unfair since some one in LA might get 2500 as basic while the guy in West Virginia is only getting 1k.

Who pays the taxes which supplies this UBI? Employers? Employees? A new payroll tax? Do people still get welfare? Do people still get social security?
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LOL. People still have free choice. If they choose to live in LA, they need to make enough money to do it. Or, they can choose to move to a cheaper area. Just like now. All your other questions are already answered in this thread.
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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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But then what happens to the irresponsible citizens who do not spend the money wisely? What happens when they run out of money before the next $1000? Are they left then to starve on the streets OR would yet another entitlement welfare program be created to house and feed them? What happens to the alcoholic, heroine, meth, crack addict that blows their $1000 in a single day and the country wakes up to news of hundreds dead from overdose every few weeks? The fallacy with all leftist programs is that they fail to take into account the unalterability of human nature and instead believe that they have the power to manipulate human nature to their ends. The plans sounds good on paper. Socialism sounds good on paper too. But human beings are complex and flawed flesh and blood beings, not minions of abstract theories
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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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But then what happens to the irresponsible citizens who do not spend the money wisely? What happens when they run out of money before the next $1000? Are they left then to starve on the streets OR would yet another entitlement welfare program be created to house and feed them? What happens to the alcoholic, heroine, meth, crack addict that blows their $1000 in a single day and the country wakes up to news of hundreds dead from overdose every few weeks? The fallacy with all leftist programs is that they fail to take into account the unalterability of human nature and instead believe that they have the power to manipulate human nature to their ends. The plans sounds good on paper. Socialism sounds good on paper too. But human beings are complex and flawed flesh and blood beings, not minions of abstract theories
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Same thing that happens now when they sell off their food stamps and welfare. Universal Basic Income as explained by OP is not meant to fix drug addicts.

"REPLACE several existing programs" and "US Citizens ONLY," and OP has a great plan.





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