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The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year

Posted by timothy on from the depends-what-you-consider-proper dept.

merbs writes: Supporters of a basic income have finally organized a proper political movement. Basic Income Action is, according to co-founder Dan O'Sullivan, "the first national organization educating and organizing the public to support a basic income. "He tells me that "Our goal is to educate and organize people to take action to win a basic income here in the U.S." This 2013 Economist article does a good job of summarizing the pro and con viewpoints on the (ahem) basic idea.

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  1. Fire up the printing presses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can I borrow your wheelbarrow? I need a loaf of bread.

  2. Re:Don't we (the US) already have that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not sure if Poe's law or just an asshat...

  3. Re:Don't we (the US) already have that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why should I raise 3 kids, take care of a wife while scum like you eat and drink and fuck and do drugs with my money on your God damned EBT cards, pig?

    Why the fuck should I know why you got married and had 3 kids? Brain damage, maybe?

  4. Re:How is this paid for? by Wandering+Wombat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, thank goodness you gave it a cursory glance. I'm sure that's a far more detailed and nuanced approach than the hundreds of economists who have spent literally decades working out the minutiae of minimum basic income.

    I can't believe they wasted their lives like that, when you could have saved them all that work.

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