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Chicago Is Next To Look At The Universal Basic Income
Hotair ^ | 08/11/2018 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 08/11/2018 5:49:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

How in the world are they going to pay for that?

With food stamps? Share the pensions?


21 posted on 08/11/2018 6:20:35 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: SeekAndFind

Chicago and California should try this! And throw in Single Payer Government Health Care and abolish the police, and guns, and legalize all drugs, and pedophilia, and not only allow but recruit voting for all illegal aliens! Crazy you say? All of this is on the “secret” agenda of today’s Progressive-Socialists. Maduro, here we come!


22 posted on 08/11/2018 6:21:00 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (So, this is the Third World! What happened to the first two?)
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To: fhayek

That’s one probable outcome.


23 posted on 08/11/2018 6:24:14 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: SeekAndFind

first, what a rogues gallery of losers. Any one could pay a bit part in a National Lampoon film (guy on left:” the car isn’t the same one he ordered, sir.”

second, they’d have to have a scoring system like in the David Carradine film Death Race 2000.

Certain points for offing a rival and you get his money. If you name a victim and miss him by Monday morning he gets your money.

Guaranteed income for all if more than 40 murders happen between Friday night and Monday.(Like getting free stuff at a burger joint if your baseball team hits three home runs in a game).

Due to reparations, only blacks get the income and whites pay the taxes for it. If you argue with that let’s just say that in Chicago that aint healthy.


24 posted on 08/11/2018 6:31:20 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End noncitizen & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
How in the world are they going to pay for that?

Two ways come to mind.


25 posted on 08/11/2018 6:31:26 PM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How else is Chicago going to launder money for Crips/Bloods/MS-13 to get their voters to the polls.


26 posted on 08/11/2018 6:32:12 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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To: Richard Axtell

Who leaked the 2020 Democrat Platform to you????


27 posted on 08/11/2018 6:32:21 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End noncitizen & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

RE: How in the world are they going to pay for that?

For a city like Chicago that cannot print money? I can only think of two ways — TAXES and DEBT.


28 posted on 08/11/2018 6:38:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: kingu

Don’t you know that nobody crawls out of poverty? You’re either born privileged or still poor and on welfare. You can’t get anywhere without the govt’s help, lol

It’s part of the Dem Creed!


29 posted on 08/11/2018 6:45:10 PM PDT by nobamanomore
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To: SeekAndFind

The RATS can do nothing but DESTROY CITIES so now they will try to BUY their job security.

Total crap.


30 posted on 08/11/2018 6:50:37 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: SeekAndFind

What is needed is JOBS.

Not moire handouts.

The crux of the problem is young black men with no jobs or responsibilities hanging out on the streets 24/7.

They were raised on welfare money and have little or no history or experience of family members being employed.

They have babies but walk away and the government takes care of the mamas and the babies.

So these leftist numbnuts want to give them more money so they can continue to hang out on the streets, shirk responsibility and shoot people for kicks and giggles.


31 posted on 08/11/2018 7:00:38 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke)
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To: SeekAndFind

The gangbangers can buy more ammo with the money.


32 posted on 08/11/2018 7:05:21 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; SeekAndFind; All

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HOW do the Socialist Democrats get ALL of these uninformed, lazy, ignorant people to the polls?

I mean, they’re basically PAID to be lay-a-bouts 364 days out of the year, yet they somehow MUSTER the energy and stamina to GET OFF THE COUCH on Election Day, then are bused or take public transportation to their local Polling Place to VOTE?
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You mean 365. W/ mail-in/”absentee” voting, one need only waste the effort to check all the (D), place the (I’ll presume) govt provided stamp and swap the “govt” (aka taxpayer) check w/ the ballot.

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I’ll never understand it...unless...these ‘bought and paid for VOTERS’ are told to just give up all of their DATA and THE PARTY will do the rest while the EBT card keeps getting re-charged each an every month?

Man, Oh, Man! Why haven’t Republicans figured out that SCAM?

*SPIT*
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Ha! As if the (R) actually care about their platform (esp. after their last ‘budget’) or ‘smaller govt’ of their platform (being the progenitors of the NSA, TSA, TARP, etc.)...


33 posted on 08/11/2018 7:09:30 PM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: SeekAndFind

But they can’t afford any such nonsense.


34 posted on 08/11/2018 7:17:52 PM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The epitome of bad ideas. Idle hands are the Devil’s playground.

Humans are designed to have purpose. In most of us, that means making a meaningful contribution, somehow - usually in the form of work and earning an income.

Take that away? Bad idea.

They have not thought through the consequences of their “good intentions.”


35 posted on 08/11/2018 7:23:22 PM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: SeekAndFind
I think I know what the result will be, but hey, people have to learn the hard way ( or as Santayana said — REPEAT HISTORY ).

Of course there will be no learning here. The leaches will take the $500 and spend it on lottery tickets, cigarettes, booze and what ever.

UBI is very similar to an existing program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF where families are given cash.

36 posted on 08/11/2018 7:30:28 PM PDT by upchuck (When I first arrived in Washington, the extent of anger and partisanship stunned me. ~ CongressmanX)
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To: SeekAndFind

Not going to happen. There is no money.


37 posted on 08/11/2018 7:37:46 PM PDT by poinq
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh, and bye the way, giving people money gives them more time to loiter and join gangs and do drugs. Money for nothing causes crime. It does not reduce crime. You would have men sitting around not working getting some small amout which they will use to buy drugs. And then they will have lots of time on their hands to do all their gang activities to get extra money.


38 posted on 08/11/2018 7:40:42 PM PDT by poinq
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To: BigEdLB

More like Fraudo.


39 posted on 08/11/2018 7:41:59 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: SeekAndFind
From the piece...But is it really Universal Basic Income? In what corner of the progressive universe does $500 per month qualify as “income?” Most of them scream bloody murder if you’re not paying the kid asking you if you “want fries with that” fifteen bucks an hour. Five hundred dollars won’t even pay your rent in most cities, even if you live in less than modest conditions. And that doesn’t begin to touch needing to do things like keeping the lights turned on and having food in the fridge.

And this does illustrate quite nicely one of the major failures of socialism.

The "according to his need" part will can never, ever actually be achieved.

"Need" is defined by the Immanuels and the Ayers and the Clintons, and is barely subsistence living, if even that.

40 posted on 08/11/2018 7:51:21 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in-never, never,never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. Winston Churchill)
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