tintory@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 9 months agoWhy Republicans are fighting the basic-income programs many cities and states are adopting: 'Is money a birthright now?'www.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up1409arrow-down14cross-posted to: politics@beehaw.org
arrow-up1405arrow-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 · 9 months agomessage-square122fedilinkcross-posted to: politics@beehaw.org
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down16·9 months agoHayek was for private money, not infinite debt to pay for UBI?
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·9 months agoInfinite debt? You’ve never heard of paying for things with taxes?
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down16·9 months agoHave you ever looked at a budget in your life?
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·9 months agoAre you just chatting me up now? Because you’re certainly not addressing anything I said.
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down17·9 months agoAre you just chatting me up now? Because you’re certainly not answering anything I asked.
minus-squarewhoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·9 months 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-down6·9 months agoSocial security isn’t UBI.
minus-squarewhoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-29 months agoSorry, what does “certain minimum income” mean in your native language?
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down8·edit-29 months agoSorry, what does “even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself” in your native language?
minus-squareJohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months 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?