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Honestly pretty much any other plan would be better than this one. The problems with a universal basic income are many. First off, how would the government get the money for it without taxing people who are actually working and producing goods.
They are getting the money too in Universal Basic Income. Corporations pay taxes and you can implement excise taxes too. The Federal Government already does on gasoline to help finance interstate construction.
Anyways, unless Americans are in fact a country of mentally challenged people, their best and brightest ought be able to figure out a way to finance the thing. I mean... no one is asking any of them to find cures for all the multitudes of cancers afflicting mankind. The damn Inca were able to provide housing and food for everyone, not a singular homeless person, centuries ago. Likewise with the remarkable Jesuit run Reductions for Amerindians in Latin America. And you are telling me the buffoons of modern day America with all their "we have science," and we are "secular" can't do a 10th of what these people did centuries ago?
This would lower production and as a result there would be less food on the shelf and higher prices. Another problem would be manipulation. Some people would prefer to be on the basic income than working in a low paying job and would choose to be a burden rather than a productive citizen.
Why do you care? A fear you are missing out?
I remember when all those 9-11 families, rich families too, right away started demanding the Federal Government break them bread ($$$) because their mistress, gay lovers, son, cheating husband got killed in a homicide. Poor American families had members getting whacked for eons the Fed's never came running with duffel bags of money for them.
So, the loudest "I'm against this," are the 1st American running up to the front of the line pushing others out of the way to get a baked potato from the Government when their butts are on the line. That opened my eyes and taught me all these people lie. I've never seen people run so fast to the Government in all my life.
But if your argument where true then US needs to pull out of South Korea and from out of Europe and the Middle East, because our welfare is decentivizing these people from taking care of themselves, of their own national security.
Every American is John Wayne, a cowboy, until the Brazil or Mexico they want comes to the USA with a zeal and commitment to snatch their daughter or wife off the road. Then all of a sudden, they aren't cowboys but wan't the welfare system on the local and state police and Federal, the FBI, to ride into the welfare rescue to get their daughter back before they get a second ear of hers in the mail.
So, this is how we going to do this, like Tupac at roughly the 4:10 mark to the end.
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In Sao Paulo, kidnapping is an established business - lucrative and hectic. For four years a film crew followed the police department's anti-kidnapping division (DAS), riding along to locate houses holding captives, listening in on phone calls, freeing horrified victims and busting criminals.