Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks in support of guaranteed income program

Cbsnews ^ | 06/09/2023 | CBS CHICAGO Team

[ChicagoConservative27]

CHICAGO (CBS) –Mayor Brandon Johnson spoke Friday in favor of a basic income guarantee program at a conference held in Chicago.

"We are ushering in a more dynamic, prosperous economy by giving people a guarantee that their lives have meaning," Johnson said.

About 3,200 families are receiving direct payments in the first-ever Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income pilot program for low-earning households.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Embrace the suck Chicago. I hope people who live in Lakeview and the gold coast get taxed hard to pay for this.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Support people who refuse to work.

[cableguymn]

And you will end up with more of them.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Who guarantees the guarantee?

[BenLurkin]

"We are ushering in a more dynamic, prosperous economy by giving people a guarantee that their lives have meaning,"

[bk1000]

What is it with people named Brandon these days?

[DownInFlames]

Unconstitutional. The 14th amendment guarantees equal protection under the law. No government official at any level has the power to give or take based upon race.

[neverevergiveup]

I hope people who live in Lakeview and the gold coast get taxed hard to pay for this.

Agree entirely. These areas include a large number of people who are entirely delusional about what they think social justice is. They have no idea, and never have.

Ever since the true Manchurian candidate, Obama took office this is what the plan was - Marxism and a repudiation of everything most of us have loved about America. Unless this is stopped there will be no freedom, no self determinism, and no class mobility - unless you check certain pre-approved boxes. This is a nightmare.

[Rurudyne]

Democrats reach into some other guy’s pocket to “do good”.

[meyer]

I support the “if you don’t work, you don’t eat program” as well as the capital punishment for thieves.

[ConservativeInPA]

Most here are familiar with Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. Do you remember what happened at 20th Century Motors? The children of the founder took over management and implemented their new plan to pay workers based on their need. The result was the failure of 20th Century Motors. Guaranteed income schemes are similar, but without people going to work. It doesn’t end with a private sector business failing. It ends in a city, state or nation failing. Contained within are many businesses, some of which sell things needed to stay alive. They fail, people die.

Socialism and Communism ALWAYS murders thousands, if not millions.

[MrRelevant]

Give me a fish…..
Teach me to fish….

[sphinx]

"We are ushering in a more dynamic, prosperous economy by giving people a guarantee that their lives have meaning," Johnson said.

Leftists believe that turning people into permanent welfare dependents will give their lives meaning.

That said, the mayor misspoke. Turning people into permanent democrat party line voters is the "meaning" of which he spoke.

[sevlex]

Let’s go, Brandon.

[piasa]

Yet, they have been doing just that for years...

[Huskrrrr]

I thought looting provided a universal income.

[jeffersondem]

“Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income pilot program”

Pilot program?

It is a test program to determine if people will accept money they did not earn, taken by police power from someone that did earn it.

So far, yes, people are grabbing the money with both hands.

[ridesthemiles]

STRAIGHT OUT OF ATLAS SHRUGGED

[Leaning Right]

This is so crazy. Family A gets picked by some sort of lottery, and gets a guaranteed income. Family B right next door doesn’t get picked. Family A now goes on a spending spree. All Family B can do is watch.

Even the communists didn’t try something like this.

[ronnie raygun]

We are ushering in a more dynamic, prosperous economy by giving people a guarantee that their lives have meaning,” Johnson said. An absolute idiot marxist