Gov. Candidate Zoltan Istvan Proposes CA State-Wide Basic Income (Sacramento: sale, real estate)

[CaliRestoration]

Originally Posted by majoun

It would be a lot cheaper than the welfare system we have now.

Are you kidding? This Zoltan idiot is asking California to come up with nearly a trillion dollars more in taxes to support his plan.

The entire, legislative approved, California annual budget for 2016 was less than $172 billion.

Where you going to get the other money?

[CCbaxter]

Silly idea, empty land produces no revenue. If it did American Indians living on reservations would all be rich.

[CaliRestoration]

Originally Posted by majoun

Is Alaska overrun with non-workers?

Basic income would replace welfare and so it would cost the taxpayer less money. It isn't necessarily a liberal idea. There are some on the right like Charles Murray or the late Milton Friedman who have favored it. It was actually the left who prevented it from happening

Alaska also has one of the smallest economies in the U.S by GDP.

Universal Basic Income doesn't help or enlarge an economy. It only creates subsistence living for the poor, and inflation for everyone else.

[jm1982]

Originally Posted by CCbaxter

Silly idea, empty land produces no revenue. If it did American Indians living on reservations would all be rich.

Well the idea would be to lease out the land to oil drillers I guess .
But this is all speculation . Plus if you allowed so much drilling the price of the resource would come down .

[CaliRestoration]

Originally Posted by jm1982

Well the idea would be to lease out the land to oil drillers I guess .
But this is all speculation . Plus if you allowed so much drilling the price of the resource would come down .

Plus, imagine telling the majority of the people who would vote for universal income that the state would start drilling or fracking the California wilderness. We're talking about people with very little understanding or even care for how things get paid for.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Dave Coe

Robert Stark talks to Zoltan Istvan about his Proposal for a California State Basic Income - The Stark Truth With Robert Stark

"The Federal government’s net worth of natural resources is at least $130 trillion dollars. California is the third largest state in the U.S., and its 45 million federal acres of land could be worth $10 to $20 trillion dollars."

"If every household — and there are about 13 million in California — received this sort of 5 percent annual payout, it would be about $57,500 per household, or nearly $5,000 a month. In short, it would dramatically change the lives of tens of millions of people — especially the nearly 40 percent of Californians who live at, below or near the poverty line of $24,000 for a family of four."

Sounds like his ideas are more than strange enough to make him a viable candidate for Governor of California; a real contender, even! Should create quite a rush to the left coast by the unemployed, lazy and entitled from all the other states. That beats being a sanctuary state all hollow. Enjoy!

[BeauCharles]

lol - this state. You just have to laugh sometimes.

[CaliRestoration]

Originally Posted by BeauCharles

lol - this state. You just have to laugh sometimes.

It's all fun and games until they start shooting their pets, and killing zoo animals because the grocery stores have run out of food like in Venezuela.

Socialism, not even once.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Sounds like his ideas are more than strange enough to make him a viable candidate for Governor of California; a real contender, even! Should create quite a rush to the left coast by the unemployed, lazy and entitled from all the other states. That beats being a sanctuary state all hollow. Enjoy!

You are soooo right. A huge number of people will be moving to CA making it even greater.

[anonimuso]

Originally Posted by Dave Coe

Robert Stark talks to Zoltan Istvan about his Proposal for a California State Basic Income - The Stark Truth With Robert Stark


"The Federal government’s net worth of natural resources is at least $130 trillion dollars. California is the third largest state in the U.S., and its 45 million federal acres of land could be worth $10 to $20 trillion dollars."

"If every household — and there are about 13 million in California — received this sort of 5 percent annual payout, it would be about $57,500 per household, or nearly $5,000 a month. In short, it would dramatically change the lives of tens of millions of people — especially the nearly 40 percent of Californians who live at, below or near the poverty line of $24,000 for a family of four."

I so hope they do this. Hopefully it will prompt all of the deadbeats from across the country to flock to California. Great weather AND you get money you don't need to earn? What's not to love?

I think people all over the country should see this as a win-win.