Re:A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic incom...
by jbuzbee on Thursday July 02, 2015 @05:51PM
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"America will be about the last place to attempt this"
In a small sense, the US is already doing it. 60 minutes did a story on an area in Kentucky and West Virginia where they estimated 10-15% of the population, 250 thousand people, are on social security disability. Local lawyers guaranteed, and the Social Security Administration agreed, that they could get anybody classified as "disabled" to get benefits.
Re:A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic incom...
by rconti on Thursday July 02, 2015 @06:00PM
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Yup, I'm well aware of how the disability system is being used. But we all know increasing social services has been pretty much a toxic idea since at least the early 90s.
In a small sense, the US is already doing it. 60 minutes did a story on an area in Kentucky and West Virginia where they estimated 10-15% of the population, 250 thousand people, are on social security disability. Local lawyers guaranteed, and the Social Security Administration agreed, that they could get anybody classified as "disabled" to get benefits.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/disability-usa/