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"Social security is a essentially an age-tested basic income." Kind of irrelevant to the point regardless of whether the statement is correct because social se
by georgemcbay 12y ago
"Social security is a essentially an age-tested basic income."
Kind of irrelevant to the point regardless of whether the statement is correct because social security, if it did not already exist (but all other things were somehow still the same) would (incredibly unfortunately, IMO) have absolutely no hope of being instituted in this country either.
The US of 2014 is not the US of 1935.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoAgreed.
- curun1r 12y agoThe US of 2014 doesn't have 25% unemployment. When we get back to that point, I think we'll develop more tolerance for socialist policies. And just in case anyone doesn't think our unemployment will get that high, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU