From the website you quoted that from : "The Babylon Bee is Your Trusted Source For Christian News Satire."“No, I’m very good with numbers,” Ocasio-Cortez said. She held up a notebook with a few hastily scrawled numbers on it. She pointed to one. “This one is a four.”
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Wait until AOC starts espousing the "benefits" of the universal basic income!“No, I’m very good with numbers,” Ocasio-Cortez said. She held up a notebook with a few hastily scrawled numbers on it. She pointed to one. “This one is a four.”
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Too many people today regard teachers, experts and scientists as “elitists.”“No, I’m very good with numbers,” Ocasio-Cortez said. She held up a notebook with a few hastily scrawled numbers on it. She pointed to one. “This one is a four.”
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Wait until AOC starts espousing the "benefits" of the universal basic income!
To call AOC an idiot would be a tremendous insult to idiots.
To call AOC an idiot would be a tremendous insult to idiots.
So ... don't work and you get a basic income (whatever that means),. or work and pay for everyone else's 'basic income'.charles murray has an interesting perspective on it - he suggests a universal basic income coupled with the total dismantling of all governmental social programs - he makes a strong case that one won't work without the other
Too many people today regard teachers, experts and scientists as “elitists.”
No question about that!AOC is none of those
So ... don't work and you get a basic income (whatever that means),. or work and pay for everyone else's 'basic income'.
These people live in a fantasy world where reality is just all fun and games.
To call other people names is both immature and boorish.
It becomes the shabby, ultimate refuge from a reasoned, adult dialogue.
It's still a tremendous incentive to laziness and claiming other people's hard work as their own.murray's scheme (which is the only one i'm familiar with) allows for a minimalist lifestyle - for example, it has mandatory payments taken out for health insurance, so the unworking poor won't be a social drain on our existing health care system - past that, you're on your own with regard to choice - how you choose to spend your $700/month is all up to you - but if you choose unwisely, there's no government programs to fall back on
Fairy tales all the way down.murray presents it as a way to rid us of the nanny state, to make citizens take responsibility for their actions and choices
Do we open the borders and let in everyone that wants to participate in the universal basic income?charles murray has an interesting perspective on it - he suggests a universal basic income coupled with the total dismantling of all governmental social programs - he makes a strong case that one won't work without the other
That system will be exploited in the same way that subsidies intended for small independent farms have been exploited by large farming conglomerates.murray's scheme (which is the only one i'm familiar with) allows for a minimalist lifestyle - for example, it has mandatory payments taken out for health insurance, so the unworking poor won't be a social drain on our existing health care system - past that, you're on your own with regard to choice - how you choose to spend your $700/month is all up to you - but if you choose unwisely, there's no government programs to fall back on
murray presents it as a way to rid us of the nanny state, to make citizens take responsibility for their actions and choices
It's still a tremendous incentive to laziness and claiming other people's hard work as their own.
Fairy tales all the way down.
How many people will take $700 a month with free health care? What if it's everybody?
These politicians all think that money grows on trees.
That system will be exploited in the same way that subsidies intended for small independent farms ...
I get that, but if you think that this magic program will eliminate all of the existing programs.... not gonna happen.the things is, we're already paying that (and more) if you count the cost of all the social programs our tax dollars support
murray's scheme dismantles a huge administrative bureaucracy and replaces it with a simple check-writing service
while i haven't examined his numbers closely (and he's silent on what to do with all the administrative bureaucrats who no longer have jobs) he presents it as less expensive than what we have now and designed to encourage personal growth (which the current welfare system discourages)
for a personal example, i can't live on $700/month - not unless i give up my car and a lot of lifestyle choices i enjoy
... murray argues for a minimalist role for government...