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As a libertarian, I feel the government should stay out of people's lives, and yet I feel this actually achieves that over the current style in the US of needin
by hermannj314 13y ago
As a libertarian, I feel the government should stay out of people's lives, and yet I feel this actually achieves that over the current style in the US of needing to be deemed 'worthy poor' by the majority.
Assuming this replaces all other government payments: most tax credits, food stamps, social security it create an amazing administrative savings.
I'm thinking through the implications for the child support model in the United States. As I understand it, the child has a right to receive compensation from their birth parents to pay for housing, food, clothing; but if the government is taking ownership of all human beings, it seems the birth parent would have no responsibility to provide support in excess of the basic income.
Orphanages, foster parents, or current custodial guardians would just receive the basic income and act accordingly. The implications for this sort of program seem huge.
- wavefunction 13y ago>>government is taking ownership of all human beings I take the view that a basic income like the one proposed is actually all human beings taking ownership of our government from the current selected few privileged few.