Posted on 06/06/2016 12:14:45 PM PDT by PROCON
For the next 12 months, a man from Sarasota, Florida will receive $1,250 a month for doing absolutely nothing, and the people footing the bill couldn't be happier about it.
The recipient, a man named Edwin who declined to speak to the press, won the $15,000 in a raffle held in San Francisco on May 31. The giveaway was organized by the nonprofit advocacy group My Basic Income, which wants to set up a slew of lotteries to see how basic income might work around the world.
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The Florida minimum wage is $8.05 an hour which translates to an income of $16,744 based on a 40-hour week.
I hate people who remember and recite poetry :-)
If they decide to do this in a new way (other than what welfare is currently doing), I can tell you one thing. They will demand an increase in the amount they get every year because they can’t live on such a small amount of money.
I remembered it vaguely and had to look it up.
Let’s see... You do 8-10 years of study and residency to make the same as a janitor? How do these ****tards manage to successfully respire???
I, just me, could live on that. Of course I worked my entire life to buy what I wanted and paid for things. Hubby right beside me doing the same. But back to how I could do it. We have a paid for sailboat big enough to live on. Dock fees would be $650. I’d probably qualify for food stamps and MediCal so my food and medical would be taken care of. My car is paid for so the $600 that would be left would supply my wine habit and clothing, etc. lol
There you go. Easy peasy.
That's fine, doctors and janitors provide a service. What about if you're nothing?
Doesn’t Alaska distribute oil royalties to the population just for being residents?
But IIRC few 40 hour jobs are available due to Obamacare calling anything 30 hours and over full time and requiring employer contributions ripoffs.
His predecessors are all on Jerry Springer every afternoon. :)
Not the first...some VERY WELL PAID PEOPLE spend their days here, for years at a time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassignment_centers
$1250/month is not going to pay mortgage/rent, utilities, and groceries plus miscellaneous expenses...in a month it won’t be nearly “enough”.
Incredible, I had never heard of it, unfortunately not surprising, effin Teacher's Unions.
That is not a "quote." That is the full, entire, and exact wording of the Tenth Amendment. There is nothing "implied" by Amendment X; the meaning is clear. A power NOT specifically enumerated elsewhere in the Constitution does NOT exist.
But there are powers at its disposal. One is printing money, and the other is tariffs.
By explicit remedy, the Federal government has the authority to lay direct taxation on incomes, from whatever source derived. This happened in 1913, and was in all the papers. Before that, the Congress also had the power to lay direct taxes, which it occasionally did before the Sixteenth Amendment.
Because the Income Tax Amendment is so open-ended, most attempts to provide "guaranteed basic income" have been floated as "negative income tax." (For example, the EITC) I do not believe that this dubious means of circumventing the Constitution has really ever been tested in Federal Court.
These strange devices are employed because, as you suspect (or fear), and I maintain, there is no Constitutional provision for the disbursement of public funds. Nor is it likely that the Framers envisioned huge charitable donations from powers foreign or extraterrestrial would need to be considered.
As for the indirect monetization of awards or penalties (the latter is far more likely -- when the entitlement Ponzi schemes finally come crashing down) that it is certainly one of the unique (and defining) prerogatives of any sovereign state. But since it would benefit all holders of US money across the board and would benefit millionaires and billionaires many of whom are not even US citizens it could not be a practical delivery vehicle for your scheme.
Sure, a guaranteed basic income isn't a "good" thing -- it's just (likely) much, much better (and cheaper) than the mess you have now.
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