Posted on 07/31/2014 3:20:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Still a ridiculous idea.
He made more than I did in a year.
How about we end all forms of welfare and give the “poor” the money without having to fund a massive bureaucracy to process it. We’d probably save a hundred billion or more per year without actually reducing benefits.
me too
Street corners would be full of people begging for money...after having spent most of their “income” on drugs, jewelry, booze, sex, dvd’s, TV’s, phones....then screaming and hollering that $16K isn’t enough.
I guess that depends, Michael. If you weren't getting Welfare, you and your daughter would be starving on the street. If someone else wasn't working to earn money and then pay part of that money in taxes, you wouldn't have Welfare. If the whole world decided to live off Welfare, we would all die. I hate POS's like this guy.
Sounds a lot like Chelsea Clinton. Remember, she wasn’t too interested in money either. Same situation, just on a larger scale.
If everyone was paid $16,000 per year, then $16,000 would become the new zero.
I would probably be expected to pay $2000 a month in taxes to pay for the privilege of getting that $1000 per month.
I want $16,000 a month.
“What would happen if everyone was suddenly paid €1,000 a month with no strings attached?”
Someone would have to come up with $3 trillion every year.
Which is why it wouldn't work. Too many producers like me (my little business supports four families, most single mothers) that the whole thing would crash.
But by all means, if Germany wants to try it, let them. But you'd have to let it run like that for about 3 generations to really see the effect on the human psyche.
Yes. And housing prices would go up quickly, because someone earning $16,000 a year now might be gainfully employed, but when every crackhead can rent or buy in his area, the poor who don't want to be around this type will have to pay more to get into a decent neighborhood.
I’m sick of working and I’d like to quit! Where do I sign up? Oh, and would ya’ll make sure you give me enough money that I could afford to buy a pony too?
I’d go with that except the entire system would re-develop around it.
“If you weren’t getting Welfare, you and your daughter would be starving on the street. If someone else wasn’t working to earn money and then pay part of that money in taxes, you wouldn’t have Welfare. If the whole world decided to live off Welfare, we would all die. I hate POS’s like this guy.”
He’s wealthy (doesn’t have to work), and is experimenting.
When rich people do these things it makes me suspicious, as though they are trying to gauge how little the little peons can subsist on. Death camp commandants probably measured out diets like this.
You're right. I once went through the STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF THE UNITED STATES, adding up all the means-tested, income-transfer programs at federal and state level. If we simply took the money and gave it to the poor, every poor family of four would have an income of $32,000 per year. Of course, that cuts out all the people who administer the welfare programs, probably adding them to the numbers of the poor. However, it illustrates that what we're doing, as someone once put it, amounts to feeding the sparrows through the horses.
What would happen to peoples motivations and incentives if they could get this money without working? I don't know, but I suspect in the long run it wouldn't be good for them. But the present system isn't good for them either, and it funds a lot of people who are making a living off the poor.
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