Re:Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case f...
by jedberg on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:46PM
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Immigrants means anyone in the US that isn’t a citizen.
Legal residents would not get UBI until they become citizens.
Re:Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case f...
by mydongle on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:49PM
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Why wouldn't we allow legal residents to receive it?
Re:Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case f...
by jedberg on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:55PM
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Politics mainly. It's already hard to convince people to give up part of their wealth for their fellow citizens. Good luck convincing them to give it up for non-citizens.
Also, logistics. If immigrants can get the UBI, then people would flood in from all over the world just to get UBI. You'd either have a ton of expense, or you'd have to make legal immigration nearly impossible.
Re:Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case f...
by wlesieutre on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:56PM
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It would certainly be challenging to be a non-citizen resident if you have to pay the same taxes as everyone else, but are cut out of such a major benefit.
Basically a gigantic extra tax for not having citizenship.
Re:Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case f...
by matthewbauer on Thursday May 21, 2020 @06:02PM
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Without the right to vote, I think it would be hard to get much political will for it. Even if we started out giving it to noncitizens, it would be the first thing cut in budget cuts.
Otherwise, we are a country full of immigrants who have become citizens or legal residents and would benefit from UBI.