When Stockton gave people cash, they got jobs

Re:When Stockton gave people cash, they got jobs by moshmosh on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @01:19PM (#27120735)

It'd solve a lot of problems and we're (in the US) already living with most of the down-sides of one but without any of the benefits; however, it's a somewhat unpopular idea among Democrats and a very unpopular idea among Republicans. Without a major shift, it's not gonna happen.

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Re:When Stockton gave people cash, they got jobs by iammisc on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @01:22PM (#27120779)

Can you cite a source about republicans not wanting state IDs? The data would seem to contradict you.

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Re:When Stockton gave people cash, they got jobs by moshmosh on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @02:00PM (#27121328)

We already have state IDs. Talk about making them mandatory and provided, automatically, for free and useful for the things a national ID is useful for (replacing our widespread and awful use of Social Security numbers as a de facto personal ID for interactions with business and government, for example) and you start to run into resistance in a hurry.

They do tend to favor adding ID requirements to voting, though, yes.

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Re:When Stockton gave people cash, they got jobs by throwaway3699 on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @01:58PM (#27121300)

Republicans want voter ID, but they don't want to mandate IDs that must be carried. Democrats seem to stand for the inverse.

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Re:When Stockton gave people cash, they got jobs by jsight on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @01:53PM (#27121231)

I feel like Republicans push back against the idea of one being compulsory. Its a strange state of affairs for sure.

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