[SeekAndFind]

I’m all for Chicago giving it a try.

“Laboratories of democracy” is a phrase popularized by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann to describe how a “state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.”

I think I know what the result will be, but hey, people have to learn the hard way ( or as Santayana said — REPEAT HISTORY ).

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Sometimes the best punishment is to give someone what they want.

[upchuck]

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.