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goobster · 2034 days ago · link · · parent · post: Italy rattles world markets after 5-star movement triples deficit for UBI
Heartening to see a government actually doing what they said they would do, and looking out for the poorest and oldest. Will it work? Not if Brussels has anything to say about it. But Italy is a wild card in the EU. It was hardly even a functioning country by WWI, since the separate kingdoms were unified barely 30 years earlier. Good on em! Try it out. Throw something at the wall, and see if it sticks. Shit, Germany will bail you out, and the UK won't be sucking off the teat and getting free milk any more. Maybe it's the right time for some dramatic re-thinking of the social safety net provided by governments.