Guaranteed Basic Income

[Medius]

I personally would just like us to define a minimum livable income, under which a person with an average amount of kids, must have assistance. Then stop thinking of this as welfare and start thinking of it as business externalizing the cost of labor. Slap a tax on profits for any company paying people under this wage and supplement income to that level for anyone making less. Kill the rest of the welfare programs.

[Gremlin]

[Dylan]

Mother of god.

[exploited]

[PoS]

Nothing should be guaranteed unless you work for it.

[Spider]

[Winchester]

I didn't get a SS number till I was 16.

[Spider]

But how do you claim kids as dependents on taxes without a SSN?

[Hyperion]

Basic income is just another prescription or band-aid for the real issue: the current economic system disproportionally and staggeringly concentrates wealth into the hands of a few for an amount of contribution that is far overpriced. The entire system needs to be remodeled; if there's a rot, you pull out the floorboard. You don't paint it over.

There should be no public protection of corporations through limited liability. Have the 'private sector' insure these beasts. The costs for large corporations compared to cooperatives would be astronomical. Good, let the corporate model crash and burn.

[Winchester]