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The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year

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

    Otherwise get a fucking job, asshole. 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?

  2. STUPID STUPID STUPID by p51d007 · · Score: 0, Troll

    You want to see what happens if you guarantee "free income" to citizens? Just look at ANY ghetto in the USA, any "project" housing. THAT is the result of over 50 years of "welfare". I suppose you would prefer NO ONE work? Unless you give people a reason to get off their lazy ass and do something productive, the entire country will look like "project" houses in a few years. (mostly) blacks, have become nothing more than slaves to the United States government. Politicians, have turned them, into a guaranteed block of voters, who will almost always vote democratic, otherwise, they would have to get up off their butts, and WORK for a LIVING. Call me racist, call me this or that, I don't care, but YOU KNOW IT IS THE TRUTH!

  3. Re:Don't we (the US) already have that... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'm still waiting for the Republicans to introduce the jobs bill that they promised in the 2010 campaign. After 50+ votes on Obamacare, they still haven't introduce a jobs bill.

  4. Re:Don't we (the US) already have that... by msauve · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, it further encourages non-productive members of society to breed like rabbits, diluting the gene pool.

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  5. Re:Don't we (the US) already have that... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2, Troll

    If you QUALIFY for public assistance, use it. If you DON'T QUALIFY for public assistance, work harder and stop grumbling about those less fortunate.

  6. Re:How is this paid for? by kheldan · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does this money just magically appear?

    This, this, this, THIS, THIS, THIS! Times infinity!

    Money does not grow on trees! Just like the ACA, the money has to come from somewhere! This is socialism at it's absolute worst!

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  7. Re:It might finally be time for this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Whites will never allow that to happen. They will always require minorities to work. They'll never approve any plan that lets us work as little as them.

  8. Re:How is this paid for? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is socialism at it's absolute worst!

    No, that's the price of living in a civilization.

  9. Re:How is this paid for? by cayenne8 · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know Switzerland has already implemented a basic income right? Strangely, they have not been plagued by a mass of people quitting their jobs.

    MUCH smaller country, and different culture, more homogenized than the US.

    We have far more folks, AND...well, culture has bred a lot of lazy, entitled, no work ethic folks in the past few decades.

    There are PLENTY of folks with no drive which would leech on said system and not be self motivated enough to try to better themselves above it in any significant way.

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  10. Re:How is this paid for? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1, Troll

    The rest of the world has a better health care system than the U.S.

  11. Re: Don't we (the US) already have that... by kwbauer · · Score: 0, Troll

    whatever. Maybe if we stopped calling it normal in the US to walk around with your ass hanging out and "axing" questions, the US would be a better place to live.