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San Francisco tested a $1,000 guaranteed income pilot program. Here's how it went for two artists.
SFgate ^ | January 22, 2022 | Natalia Borecki

Posted on 01/22/2022 6:51:21 PM PST by KingofZion

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To: TexasGator

Not exactly the guy Iā€™d want as a neighbor. Despite what the author thinks.


41 posted on 01/22/2022 9:16:03 PM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

[[That sucks. My last electric bill was $26.96.]]

What? Ours was $120- what do you have? One light bulb?


42 posted on 01/22/2022 9:28:46 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

whoops=- meant $90, not $120- Had 120 on the brain for soem reason


43 posted on 01/22/2022 9:30:13 PM PST by Bob434
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To: BenLurkin

Steinbeck, Hammett, Woolf


Woolf? Perhaps you meant Gertrude Stein?


44 posted on 01/22/2022 9:40:13 PM PST by pluvmantelo (CRT-Dindunuffinism with a Marxist facade)
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To: pluvmantelo

Yes.

Sboulda not tried to get clever.


45 posted on 01/22/2022 9:44:18 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, they did have a certain proclivity in common...


46 posted on 01/22/2022 9:50:51 PM PST by pluvmantelo (CRT-Dindunuffinism with a Marxist facade)
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To: KingofZion

The plandemic has been toughest on all artist types, yet they stubbornly refuse to acknowledge government to be the culprit.

Drives me nuts.


47 posted on 01/22/2022 11:00:14 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: SoCal Pubbie
Were you running a flux capacityor or something?

Yep, and it requires 1.21 jigawatts of power to operate.

Regards,

48 posted on 01/23/2022 12:01:52 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

My last electric bill was $226.00. 3 freezers and 3 refrigerators will do that to you.


49 posted on 01/23/2022 3:19:31 AM PST by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: Veto!

One big problem with government subsidies of the arts is that you are taxing one group of people to subsidize people who may hate them or not share their values.

One specific example—White males should not be taxed to pay to support artists who use their art to hate on white males.

Then we get to the next problem—if government subsidizes it, directly or indirectly, then government can intervene to decide what it deems “art” and what does not qualify.

That politicizes “art”—and as we know any institution that is not actively right wing quickly drifts into a left-wing bias—so “art” turns into Communist agit-prop.


50 posted on 01/23/2022 3:27:28 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: KingofZion

I love many works of art, but life does not owe artists a living. Any artists can do other work to support themselves and actually most do. A few want society to subsidize them so they can devote all their time to doing art. The pretense is that what they ask is NECESSARY for “art”. No it is not. It is merely desired by and for the few artists that need, but do not want to also work at something else that earns them a living.


51 posted on 01/23/2022 5:45:39 AM PST by Wuli
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To: alexander_busek

That too!


52 posted on 01/23/2022 7:06:22 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: 5th MEB

I will bet :”take a daily shower” is also on the list.


53 posted on 01/23/2022 7:33:47 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: lucky american

1965 ref/freezer
1972 ref/freezer
1972 upright freezer
2005 ref freezer
2008 upright freezer

ALL IN USE

On a well—pumping water for multiple horses-—in days over 90, 10 water tanks of 100 gallons each get filled every 2 days.
3 TV’s
Ceiling fans in summer 24 hours a day NO A/C
Forced air heat in winter 24 hours a day

HOME 24/7

Been here 17 years.

NO BILL OVER $100 This month is $75.


54 posted on 01/23/2022 7:40:21 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

Lucky you. We live in the northeast.


55 posted on 01/23/2022 9:02:32 AM PST by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: Mean Daddy

Yes, rural area about 30 minutes north of Fort Dodge.


56 posted on 01/23/2022 9:05:14 AM PST by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows. )
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To: Jeff Chandler

Ah, you must have several daughters. I know the feeling. Had two daughters myself and the key to MY happiness and peace of mind was keeping them and their mother comfortable.


57 posted on 01/23/2022 9:08:04 AM PST by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows. )
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To: ridesthemiles

My energy bills are close to $400 in winter and $500 in summer. That is with gas heat, electric A/C and one frig. Thanks to PG&E incompetence and environmental mandates, Kalifornia utility prices are only going higher. $1000 a month barely covers my property tax


58 posted on 01/23/2022 1:58:34 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: Impala64ssa

(SNL, when it was still funny,)

I remember the 1970s!

šŸ˜œ


59 posted on 01/23/2022 3:31:12 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Qui is

Generally speaking, rural electric is more expensive than in town since they may run miles of poles/lines to a handful of homes.


60 posted on 01/23/2022 5:22:31 PM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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