The Swiss collectively have more common sense than most of Europe.
In 2016, there was a referendum pushed by liberals that called for adults to be paid an unconditional monthly income, whether they worked or not.
The supporters camp had suggested a monthly income of 2,500 Swiss francs (USD $2,555) for adults and also SFr625 for each child.
The amounts reflected the high cost of living in Switzerland. It is not clear how the plan would have affected people on higher salaries.
The supporters had also argued that since work was increasingly automated, fewer jobs were available for workers.
The Swiss OVERWHELMINGLY rejected it 77% to 23%.
I bet New York and California would actually VOTE for such a proposal with a similar referendum ever came up.
You may be right and that’s idiotic to do for any state.
But you that revel being in red states should also check to see what states give MORE to the fed govt than get.
A bunch of southern red states take a LOT MORE than they give.
NY gives MORE than they GET.
I’d say that makes those states “welfare states”, the whole population.
THAT’S a terrible thing.
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/
It’s actually MUCH WORST than I thought, with 9 of the 10 most grubby states being southern or mid western.
Stop mooching guys!!
We NYers could help pay down the federal debt if you paid your share!!
One suggestion was made in a speculative fiction story I read many years ago, in that everyone, at birth, was endowed with a certain number of stock shares, selected from among those traded on the NYSE or other widely recognized bourses, and they derived a basic income from the return on those shares. If they wanted more than the pittance that return paid, they were encouraged to go into some kind of entrepreneurship, and CREATE a viable company, which would then make an Initial Public Offering, and rather than purchase of the shares for speculation, the shares were distributed to the new arrivals on the planet as they were in turn endowed with a basic number of shares for subsistence.
The ownership rights in the stock holdings were the source of the cash flow that supported all the population, not the taxation and distribution by the central government.
Both NY and CA already have millions and millions of people living on a “basic universal income” - which includes “free” housing, ObamaPhones, public education,. food, and cash benefits. Basically they have already voted in support of this.
While many FReepers rightfully cheer policies that create jobs and the opportunities that arise from decent, steady employment, they don’t seem to understand that these concepts are meaningless (if not downright insulting) to many people who have no intention of ever working a day in their lives - and will never contribute anything while consuming much. The Amazon HQ2 debacle in Queens is a great example of this; rather than cheer job opportunities in an area that needs them, the parasites instead focus on the fact that the company can’t be squeezed for more free sh!t for them.