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> There's no doubt taxes would need to increase to fund such a program, of course. Who would pay them?
by vinceguidry 11y ago
> There's no doubt taxes would need to increase to fund such a program, of course.
Who would pay them?
- mikeash 11y agoWorkers? It's not like everybody would stop working. The number of people content with $1,000/month is going to be pretty low.
- vinceguidry 11y agoI fail to see how that could possibly fly, politically. Everybody who works has to pay for everybody who doesn't want to work to just fuck around.
- mikeash 11y agoIt's not qualitatively different than what we have now.
- ashark 11y agoAlso, everyone gets the checks. Some workers' parents will be living off them. Their kids in college. Their cousin who was crippled in a car wreck. It's not like they won't know people benefiting who aren't exactly lazy freeloaders.
- eanzenberg 11y agoThe magnitude is different, and you shouldn't be ignorant to that detail.
- vinceguidry 11y agoDoesn't answer the question. Politics doesn't truck to reason.