tintory@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 9 months agoWhy Republicans are fighting the basic-income programs many cities and states are adopting: 'Is money a birthright now?'www.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square124fedilinkarrow-up1409arrow-down14cross-posted to: economicsbusiness@lemmy.world
arrow-up1405arrow-down1external-linkWhy Republicans are fighting the basic-income programs many cities and states are adopting: 'Is money a birthright now?'www.businessinsider.comtintory@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square124fedilinkcross-posted to: economicsbusiness@lemmy.world
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minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·9 months agoInfinite debt? You’ve never heard of paying for things with taxes?
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minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·9 months agoAre you just chatting me up now? Because you’re certainly not addressing anything I said.
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minus-squarewhoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·9 months agoIDK, he seemed pretty clear when he said that “the assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself, appears not only to be a wholly legitimate protection against a common risk to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born.”
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minus-squarewhoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-29 months agoSorry, what does “certain minimum income” mean in your native language?
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minus-squareJohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoHey, are you also referring to Negative Income Tax by Friedman?
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Infinite debt? You’ve never heard of paying for things with taxes?
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Are you just chatting me up now? Because you’re certainly not addressing anything I said.
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IDK, he seemed pretty clear when he said that “the assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he [sic] is unable to take care of himself, appears not only to be a wholly legitimate protection against a common risk to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born.”
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Sorry, what does “certain minimum income” mean in your native language?
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Hey, are you also referring to Negative Income Tax by Friedman?