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A basic income really could end poverty forever
Vox ^ | July 17, 2017 | Dylan Matthews

Posted on 07/17/2017 9:00:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Vendome

I do. But what about the article? LOL


41 posted on 07/17/2017 10:39:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

NOTHING can end poverty. But liberal schemes to do so stand a better than even chance of increasing it.


42 posted on 07/17/2017 10:42:12 PM PDT by irv (Live Tea or die!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stupidity at its finest.


43 posted on 07/17/2017 10:44:29 PM PDT by mulligan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dilly Dawg, there is an omission of an eventually fatal nature in your seemingly endless analysis. It can be summarized in three simple words. Inflation.


44 posted on 07/17/2017 10:51:30 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL

Dude, I made it 1/3 through the article and my ADHD starting hurting sohhhh bad I had to pour a drink...


45 posted on 07/17/2017 10:52:15 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The UK already tried it. All it did was generate an underclass who spent their time drunk, committing random crimes for fun, who did nothing but consume.


46 posted on 07/17/2017 10:53:12 PM PDT by JohnyBoy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mark 14:7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.(KJV)

Someone will always be poorer or richer than someone else. Poverty means one thing in a famine-ridden nation and quite another in a well-fed nation.


47 posted on 07/17/2017 10:57:22 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: nopardons

If you made every tech billionaire give up every penny they earn above $250,000.00 to pay for this, I guarantee there wouldn’t be a single self identified tech billionaire left in the US two weeks later.

If you taxed everyone else to pay for this “basic income” welfare, we would soon turn into a third world nation made up of the super rich and basic income poor. Why don’t these communists take a look a history to see where these ideas have already been tried and failed? What is it with libs and economics courses? This failure of an idea is dismissed in “basic” Economics 101.


48 posted on 07/17/2017 11:11:48 PM PDT by Waryone (2 Chronicles 7:14; praise God for His great merc)
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To: Waryone
SPOT ON!

This idiotic crap has been bandied about for a very, very long time by those who have a collective IQ of 45. They should all be rounded up and dropped off in the "glorious paradises" of N. Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela.

And the idiot child, who wrote this cretinous drivel needs to grow up.

49 posted on 07/17/2017 11:16:05 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Question for UBI advocates... Which is it?

1. We have too many workers due to automation
2. We have too few workers and must increase immigration


50 posted on 07/17/2017 11:52:29 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a jumbled mess.

Giving people X amount of dollars merely increases the zero point. Prices will rise to match.

Ask folks who lived in communist countries how well a basic income works


51 posted on 07/18/2017 1:09:41 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Quick let the foljs at NIF know


52 posted on 07/18/2017 1:10:53 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“n 2016, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network recognized Matthews as the most outstanding Autistic journalist of the year by presenting him with the Harriet McBryde Johnson Award for Non-Fiction Writing.[19]”

Explains kuch


53 posted on 07/18/2017 1:15:40 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It actually makes more sense for the gummint to pay people to be rich. Instead of paying poor people to have children, why don’t we pay rich people to have children?


54 posted on 07/18/2017 1:34:04 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Man, that’s a lot of words. Oddly enough, I don’t need to read a single bit of it to know it’s wrong.

A basic income getting rid of poverty? No. No, it won’t. That’s not how economics work. That’s not how human beings work. The very notion is built on the false premise that a government allowance will solve everything. No. I don’t need to listen to a thousand arguments to know Communism will fail.


55 posted on 07/18/2017 1:46:42 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Perfect scheme for a fascist government. Make everybody dependent on you for food, and then cut them off if they have the “wrong” thoughts.


56 posted on 07/18/2017 3:34:35 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wonder if he believes this crap - keep giving people stuff w/o them lifting a finger to ear it and they do not save it or use it wisely - they get addicted and need more and more to ‘just survive”...


57 posted on 07/18/2017 3:43:55 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: ConservativeMind
Welfare is a universal minimal income. It hasn’t fixed a thing.

True that! Not only hasn't it fixed a thing, it's run us trillions of dollars into debt, ruined the inner cities, destroyed the base family unit (a mom AND a dad) created high crime and murder rates (look at Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta...) high out of wedlock birth rates, highest abortion rates in the world, a complete disrespect for human life and more. I could go on for DAYS here.

But sure, let's just crank up the money printing presses and create a "basic income" out of thin air and watch the cost of everything soar even higher. Yep, free money solves every problem!

F**KING IDIOTS!

58 posted on 07/18/2017 3:48:03 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Unconditional Basic Income pursuit of Happiness.
59 posted on 07/18/2017 4:07:43 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: JohnyBoy

We already tried it as well (with the War on Poverty); it created the same thing. Americans may opt for the “basic income” in exchange for at least one child born out of wedlock (to be sacrificed to the whims of the state); in return they receive free housing, food, Obamaphones, cash, college tuition, and various other freebies.

Look what happened to those who’ve availed themselves of that option for the past few decades...


60 posted on 07/18/2017 4:11:50 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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