[GeronL]

Still a ridiculous idea.

[GeronL]

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.

[Dallas59]

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.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

The 29-year-old lives in a rented apartment in Berlin with his wife and their daughter and eats lunch in a welfare kitchen. Having time is more important than having money, he says.

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.

[WayneS]

If everyone was paid $16,000 per year, then $16,000 would become the new zero.

[KarlInOhio]

What would happen if everyone was suddenly paid €1,000 a month with no strings attached?

I would probably be expected to pay $2000 a month in taxes to pay for the privilege of getting that $1000 per month.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

And the ideologically diverse Pirate Party

Pirate Party?

Sounds like the Democrats, but with more truth in advertising.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

I want $16,000 a month.

[SaxxonWoods]

“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.

[Gluteus Maximus]

I'd buy a camper van, quit working, and live in national parks with all the time in the world to read everything I always wanted to read but never had the time. Long walks. Beautiful sunsets. Color me gone.

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.

[catnipman]

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?

[sten]

it’s no mystery what would happen. it’s called INFLATION

amazing these people are in positions of authority over economic policy