Request For Research: Basic Income

Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by rewqfdsa on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @04:00PM (#10983299)

We already have programs for granting preferential immigration to high-skilled foreigners. Every advanced country does. Unrestrained immigration is incompatible with a welfare state. Which would you rather have?

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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by oconnor663 on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @05:32PM (#10984080)

There's not necessarily a conflict between the two. One middle road would be to maintain the welfare state, but to add a rule saying that only people whose ancestors were citizens before year X could receive welfare.

The result would be extremely visibly racist, but I think the right response to that is to understand that existing immigration laws are in effect equally racist. It's the visibility that would change, rather than the degree.

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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by rewqfdsa on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @06:50PM (#10984578)

> existing immigration laws are in effect equally racist

Now it's racist for a country to provide services to its own citizens that it doesn't provide to the citizens of other countries?

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