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I see two basic issues: 1. How do you implement this whithout border control - if you create a basic income that is higher than ~1/2 the world's income the amo
by rbcgerard 10y ago
I see two basic issues:
1. How do you implement this whithout border control - if you create a basic income that is higher than ~1/2 the world's income the amount of illegal immigration will be huge
2. Will we really have the will to tell people who are starving because they lost their stipend to drugs or gambling "too bad"?
- tome 10y agoThese seem like key issues. In particular I really can't understand how this can be compatible with any non-negligible amount of immigration.
- grogers 10y ago1. Most likely the UBI would only go to legal permanent residents. 2. It's at least no worse than today for those people. Support groups will still exist. If you distribute money frequently (e.g. weekly) it might help a little in preventing catastrophic situations where people lose it all. My concern here is that the payday loan industry grows instead of shrinking (tough to predict these types of things).
- rbcgerard 10y ago1. while that is likely the case, since we grant citizenship to those born here (who i believe can then sponsor their family), the obvious choice would be to move here illegally and have children. 2. many current programs today limit what can be bought (SNAPS) or provide the service directly (low income housing), that's not to say there are not ways around this or that dollars are not fungible, but I do think there is difference
- RobertoG 10y agowhich one of those problems we don't have now, again?
- rbcgerard 10y agowe obviously have both, which would seem to be exacerbated by such a plan.