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Old 07-07-2017, 07:35 AM
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Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) - Utne Reader

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The Simplest Way To Tackle Poverty.

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Friedman made the conservative case for a GMI in his book Capitalism and Freedom, published in 1962. It centered on three points: It would supplant a bloated and inefficient welfare system, transfer spending decisions away from the government into the hands of private citizens, and allow people to get out of poverty gradually by not cutting off their benefits when they began to earn more money—escaping the “welfare trap.”
Of course bigot, conservative, confederate rebel-battle-flag-wavers, are all for getting the government out of the lives of citizens, particularly when it comes to controlling how citizens spend their money...unless those citizens happen to be too poor and too un-white.
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Old 07-07-2017, 09:45 AM
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The Simplest Way To Tackle Poverty.







Of course bigot, conservative, confederate rebel-battle-flag-wavers, are all for getting the government out of the lives of citizens, particularly when it comes to controlling how citizens spend their money...unless those citizens happen to be too poor and too un-white.


Didn't Hawaii just pass some legislation regarding this?

I think I read that somewhere in the last day or two.
I'll have to do some googling.
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Old 07-07-2017, 10:00 AM
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I think I additionally favor a guaranteed minimum job, for persons not old or disabled. Not supplanting the guaranteed minimum income, but offering a significant increase on it. People with jobs are better off. But the economy is going to be less and less interested in low-skill workers.
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Old 07-07-2017, 03:04 PM
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I think I additionally favor a guaranteed minimum job, for persons not old or disabled. Not supplanting the guaranteed minimum income, but offering a significant increase on it. People with jobs are better off. But the economy is going to be less and less interested in low-skill workers.
... until the first robot goes bonkers and destroys the whole assembly line. Having programmed computers since 1963 I can state that there is no such animal as perfect software code.
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Old 07-07-2017, 03:26 PM
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