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A comment on Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supplied by Government. Parent comment

Re:Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supp... by Hasz on Monday November 13, 2017 @02:06PM (#15689141)
The USA had the WPA, which did something akin to my proposal. Its budget was 1.3bn in 1935 (23.5bn in 2017), and relative to the US military expenditure (521bn in 2016), it's just not that much money for an incredible amount of public good.

Wikipedia has an excellent page about what the WPA administration accomplished over 8 years -- I think it's an idea worth reviving.

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Re:Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supp... by dragonwriter on Monday November 13, 2017 @04:36PM (#15690482)
The WPA was an reasonable countercyclical government response to a massive cyclical downturn in private-sector employment.

That's not the problem UBI is intended to address, and the WPA would be an exceedingly poor fit TO UBI’s problem.

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