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    Quote Originally Posted by soulezoo View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by jpmuscle View Post
    1000 dollars a month in my gun fund maybe


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    Quote Originally Posted by Firefly View Post
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    The more accurate reality is, despite our wishes to the contrary, we are all at various times the pimp, the john or the hooker depending upon the situation and the other players involved.
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    You want my vote it's going to cost you 7 grand a month.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MountainRaven View Post
    It's probably worth remembering that many proponents of UBI propose that it be paid mostly or entirely by dismantling all other social welfare programs: No more EBT, no more welfare, &c. That's not to say that it would be possible to have a UBI be $1000 a month by paying for it with money formerly earmarked for welfare programs, cuz I don't know who has done what math on it. But that's the theory.
    Spot on.

    Reagan, in his “a time for choosing” speech talks about how if you divided the amount of money spent on welfare by the number of applicants you could send other kids to Harvard. Assuming you don’t have to bribe the admissions counselor.

    In someways UBI is radically right wing in that it forces people to actually take care and account for them selves.

    My dad always said “there is a lot of money in poverty”....
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    Quote Originally Posted by MountainRaven View Post
    It's probably worth remembering that many proponents of UBI propose that it be paid mostly or entirely by dismantling all other social welfare programs: No more EBT, no more welfare, &c. That's not to say that it would be possible to have a UBI be $1000 a month by paying for it with money formerly earmarked for welfare programs, cuz I don't know who has done what math on it. But that's the theory.
    That was what Milton Friedman thought. Technically he liked something called the Negative Income Tax. It is phased out as you make more, but it works in such a way that it removes welfare cliffs. Making $1 will always leave you better off than sitting at home. That's a good thing.

    The way UBI would work under most proposals is that the income would be taxable. That means that it would be taxed back at progressive rates. Since Mark Zuckerberg pays about 50% on the margins, the cost to the government is only about half the top line cost.

    Quote Originally Posted by FromMyColdDeadHand View Post
    Spot on.

    Reagan, in his “a time for choosing” speech talks about how if you divided the amount of money spent on welfare by the number of applicants you could send other kids to Harvard. Assuming you don’t have to bribe the admissions counselor.

    In someways UBI is radically right wing in that it forces people to actually take care and account for them selves.

    My dad always said “there is a lot of money in poverty”....
    SNAP (food stamps or EBT) costs about $70B, and about $6.5B of that is administrative costs. If you converted that into a $126/mo per child benefit (current average) the total cost would be $112B. If you got 20% of that back in taxes the cost would fall to $90B and you'd cut about $6B in state and local workers. It would cost a little more but it would gut a significant Democratic base. Worth it? I would say yes.

    Taking the same thing to scale, you could convert SSI, SSDI, SNAP, WIC, EITC, CTC, TANF, CHIP, Head Start, child care, school lunch, etc. It works out to something like $250B. Divided by 74M children in the United States and that works out to about $3,400 per child. Assuming that 20% will be taxed back that's about $4,080 per child.

    In return for the spending (no net increase, mind you) you can eliminate a few hundred thousand unionized public sector jobs.
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    I feel like being dark this Sunday.

    Sometimes I pray for a North Korean style famine to hit America SO HARD that everyone on EBT/SNAP/free shit dies off. To include their kids and dogs.

    I’m ready for an American Arduous March.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SethB View Post
    That was what Milton Friedman thought. Technically he liked something called the Negative Income Tax. It is phased out as you make more, but it works in such a way that it removes welfare cliffs. Making $1 will always leave you better off than sitting at home. That's a good thing.

    The way UBI would work under most proposals is that the income would be taxable. That means that it would be taxed back at progressive rates. Since Mark Zuckerberg pays about 50% on the margins, the cost to the government is only about half the top line cost.



    SNAP (food stamps or EBT) costs about $70B, and about $6.5B of that is administrative costs. If you converted that into a $126/mo per child benefit (current average) the total cost would be $112T. If you got 20% of that back in taxes the cost would fall to $90T and you'd cut about $6B in state and local workers. It would cost a little more but it would gut a significant Democratic base. Worth it? I would say yes.

    Taking the same thing to scale, you could convert SSI, SSDI, SNAP, WIC, EITC, CTC, TANF, CHIP, Head Start, child care, school lunch, etc. It works out to something like $250B. Divided by 74M children in the United States and that works out to about $3,400 per child. Assuming that 20% will be taxed back that's about $4,080 per child.

    In return for the spending (no net increase, mind you) you can eliminate a few hundred thousand unionized public sector jobs.
    Are the T's a mistake, did you mean B (billion)?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Firefly View Post
    I feel like being dark this Sunday.

    Sometimes I pray for a North Korean style famine to hit America SO HARD that everyone on EBT/SNAP/free shit dies off. To include their kids and dogs.

    I’m ready for an American Arduous March.

    Learn to swim. Learn to swim. Learn to swim.
    Never works that way. Those who know how to game the system continue to game the system. Those unfortunates who depend upon them for survival suffer.

    The wrong people always die.

    If there was some natural catastrophe that destroyed what little infrastructure we have, prepper types would be the first to be victimized by organized street gang types. Self sufficient individuals in small towns would watch half of their children die despite the victory garden in the back yard. Anyone with a functioning large scale farm would be appropriated by government or abandoned to the wolves.

    Only the most ruthless, selfish "survive at the cost of everyone else" types would come out on the back end. The exact same people you would hope to cull from the herd would be all that remained of the herd.

    Old folks and kids, they would be the first victims. Adaptable ghetto rats and trailer shit would inherit the earth.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 26 Inf View Post
    Are the T's a mistake, did you mean B (billion)?
    I meant billion. The data that I found included lots of Ts and I converted it.

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