A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing

Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by morgante on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:09AM (#11620779)

Any bill to introduce UBI would almost certainly have to include the elimination of existing programs to get passed.

I don't dispute that many liberals would like to have UBI and the existing benefits (despite that being economically crippling). They're just extremely unlikely to get their way.

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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by JonFish85 on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @11:13AM (#11621354)

There is absolutely no way you could get rid of all of the other programs. If someone is irresponsible with their money (and there will be at least some), I doubt anyone wants families starving in the streets, which is kind of the way a bunch of the current programs are set up (at least in the US).

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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by phaemon on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @11:45AM (#11621648)

Pay it weekly.

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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by gigawhat on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @03:05PM (#11623324)

Payday loan shops.

Don't pretend you can legislate around that problem-- if payday loans against UBI were illegal, the black market (loan sharks) would fill in the gap.

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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by sokoloff on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @07:36AM (#11627611)

There's already a black market for WIC/EBT ("food stamps"). Replacing those with another program that would also have a black market seems less outrageous to me than supplementing them with another program with the same flaw.

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