tintory@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 2 years agoWhy Republicans are fighting the basic-income programs many cities and states are adopting: 'Is money a birthright now?'www.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square120fedilinkarrow-up1408arrow-down14cross-posted to: politics@beehaw.org
arrow-up1404arrow-down1external-linkWhy Republicans are fighting the basic-income programs many cities and states are adopting: 'Is money a birthright now?'www.businessinsider.comtintory@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 2 years agomessage-square120fedilinkcross-posted to: politics@beehaw.org
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down16·2 years agoHayek was for private money, not infinite debt to pay for UBI?
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 years agoInfinite debt? You’ve never heard of paying for things with taxes?
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down16·2 years agoHave you ever looked at a budget in your life?
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·2 years agoAre you just chatting me up now? Because you’re certainly not addressing anything I said.
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down17·2 years agoAre you just chatting me up now? Because you’re certainly not answering anything I asked.
minus-squarewhoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years agoIDK, he seemed pretty clear when he said that “the assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself, appears not only to be a wholly legitimate protection against a common risk to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born.”
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down6·2 years agoSocial security isn’t UBI.
minus-squarewhoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-22 years agoSorry, what does “certain minimum income” mean in your native language?
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down8·edit-22 years agoSorry, what does “even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself” in your native language?
minus-squareJohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoHey, are you also referring to Negative Income Tax by Friedman?
Hayek was for private money, not infinite debt to pay for UBI?
Infinite debt? You’ve never heard of paying for things with taxes?
Have you ever looked at a budget in your life?
Are you just chatting me up now? Because you’re certainly not addressing anything I said.
Are you just chatting me up now? Because you’re certainly not answering anything I asked.
IDK, he seemed pretty clear when he said that “the assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself, appears not only to be a wholly legitimate protection against a common risk to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born.”
Social security isn’t UBI.
Sorry, what does “certain minimum income” mean in your native language?
Sorry, what does “even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself” in your native language?
Hey, are you also referring to Negative Income Tax by Friedman?