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Of course that's not just a basic income, that's a full cushy income. A better example with be Alaska which uses ok revenues to give a subsidy to residents of t
by telchar 9y ago
Of course that's not just a basic income, that's a full cushy income. A better example with be Alaska which uses ok revenues to give a subsidy to residents of the state.
- japhyr 9y agoWe get about $1000/year, and the cost of living here is higher than just about any other state. You can't really compare the Alaska PFD to a UBI.
- reaperducer 9y agoWhen I lived in Wisconsin, we got $400/year. Officially it was to help pay for heat in the winter, but I always thought of it as a consolation prize for having to live in Wisconsin. I hear Minnesotans get a stipend, too.
- japhyr 9y agoIn 2008, the AK PFD hit its all time high of $2069, and we got an "Alaska Resource Rebate" of $1200. Every family in the state who qualified got $3269 per person. In large families, that was a windfall. That said, I think that was the winter that was extra cold and windy. We were living in a house with a boiler, and it wasn't adjusted right one month. That month's heating bill was over $500. Heating costs are serious business. We got a deal on the house we bought because renters couldn't afford to heat the whole house one winter, and the cold and damp in the rest of the house caused enough damage to bring down the value of the house. I didn't know there were other states that offered blanket assistance like you described, that's pretty interesting to know.