This idea amounts to higher taxation for the employed and the rich in order to
pay out the basic income to the unemployed and the poor.
I don't think this is going to work here in the USA.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mikemail4you@... wrote :
Fascinating experiment. I hope it works out. Giving people a guaranteed, modest
allowance should *not* be regarded as a charitable handout. On the contrary,
it's a way of emphasising that all of us who are members of a society should be
granted some share in that society's wealth as we all are
What else are you going to do if there are no jobs for everyone? Trot
people out to a gravel pit and shoot them? Dubya said we seniors would
have to work until we dropped dead. I asked doing what?
On 10/11/2014 03:21 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Fascinating experiment.
I saw little old ladies in India taking big rocks and hitting them with a
hammer until they were little rocks. It was steady work for a few rupies a day!
Don't think they were shot if they didn't fill their quota. We could run all
the Central Americans who came here illegally out and create 10
