Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
Quote Originally Posted by MrTickle View Post
Druff do you understand that UBI means universal? So it’s for everyone.

For example a school teacher on 25k who only just makes ends meet now can afford once a month to take the family out for a meal or a weekend trip away. Is that a bad thing?

Saying that someone who receivs UBI shouldn’t go to a restaurant is the same as saying nobody should go to a restaurant. It’s universal.
I had read that it was only for unemployed people. Maybe what I read was incorrect.

If it's true that everyone gets it, that's even dumber.

So if this were implemented in the US, I'd be paying my tax dollars to give Jeff Bezos free money every month?

LOL

You guys realize the same thing could be accomplished by simply cutting taxes across the board, right?

Better known as cutting out the middleman.
You already do do this, you just either dont realize this or refuse to acknowledge it. Our entire system is rigged so that for all functional purposes the super wealthy are on welfare, payed by the rest of us. That is actually how pure capitalism is designed to work.

This is where I run into problems with conservatives like Carola and Druff. They are so reticent to have the government assist the poor, whilst not acknowledging how the whole system is completely rigged to assist the super rich.

A few years ago we had a banking crisis where poor people couldn't pay their predatory loans to rich banks, so the "solution" was for the government to directly pay off the banks, while making the poor people hold onto their predatory loans. Seriously, if you step back and really examine what happened that is so fucked up it blows the mind, and yet here we are and nothing has changed.