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user-inactivated  ·  3755 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Basic Income Means Basic Freedom

Wouldn't happen right now. You have no idea whether it would happen in 50 years.

Dunno where all the money would come from, exactly.





b_b  ·  3755 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Huey Long was assassinated for promoting this very idea. Not sure any politician of today would fare much better (although I think it would be a character assassination instead of an actual one; much easier to do through the media in a fully legal way).

user-inactivated  ·  3755 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haha, I'm -- still -- not saying today. Of course not today. I'm interested in the odds of this happening in the US this century.

thenewgreen  ·  3755 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There'd be no more welfare, welfare programs and bureaucracy. I bet that would handle a chunk.

user-inactivated  ·  3755 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's what promoters say. Following your logic, though, there'd still be welfare, SSI, etc -- it'd just start when the 15k was used up. Flat minimum income is just the sort of project I'm extremely skeptical of in general, but I can't tell if that's me falling prey to inborn biases or not.