It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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You want my vote it's going to cost you 7 grand a month.
Gettin' down innagrass.
Let's Go Brandon!
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”....
The Second Amendment ACKNOWLEDGES our right to own and bear arms that are in common use that can be used for lawful purposes. The arms can be restricted ONLY if subject to historical analogue from the founding era or is dangerous (unsafe) AND unusual.
It's that simple.
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 $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.
Learn to swim. Learn to swim. Learn to swim.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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