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Old 04-08-2020, 03:15 PM
 
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It is a slippery slope and many, no doubt, will be happy to slide down it.
Yep, Welfare Iz Badd.

Too bad we're not talking about welfare.
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Old 04-08-2020, 03:25 PM
 
Location: Colorado Springs
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Give them $1,000 per month, and soon they will complain for more.
Source? Or make believe?
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Old 04-08-2020, 03:49 PM
 
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Source? Or make believe?
I suspect the usual attitude towards anyone who ever needs any help - because, you know, they're just too lazy to succeed like the writer did, and of course anyone who's ever been "given" so much as a stick of gum immediately becomes a worthless panhandler.

You know.
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Old 04-08-2020, 03:55 PM
 
Location: Colorado Springs
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I suspect the usual attitude towards anyone who ever needs any help - because, you know, they're just too lazy to succeed like the writer did, and of course anyone who's ever been "given" so much as a stick of gum immediately becomes a worthless panhandler.

You know.
Its a terribly disgusting attitude.
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Old 04-08-2020, 03:57 PM
 
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Seriously? You start giving people $1,000 a month and you think that they won't come back later and complain that it isn't enough?

I don't need a source. It is human nature.

What is your source to prove that they won't complain later about $1,000 not being enough?
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Old 04-08-2020, 03:58 PM
 
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Yep, Welfare Iz Badd.

Too bad we're not talking about welfare.
UBI is welfare.

Where does the UBI come from? From that great Democrat bank account in the sky?
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Old 04-08-2020, 04:00 PM
 
Location: Colorado Springs
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Seriously? You start giving people $1,000 a month and you think that they won't come back later and complain that it isn't enough?

I don't need a source. It is human nature.

What is your source to prove that they won't complain later about $1,000 not being enough?
Some might and some won't thats life. Also everyone gets it so the incentive to work is still there. Welfare fails because it is taken away when people try to improve themselves UBI fixes that issue.
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Old 04-08-2020, 04:02 PM
 
Location: Colorado Springs
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UBI is welfare.

Where does the UBI come from? From that great Democrat bank account in the sky?
Where does the trillions on failed wars in the middle east come from from the great Republican bank account in the sky? We have plenty of money its just not allocated correctly. The US could do lots of good things for the people but instead chooses to help big corporations and the rich go figure
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Old 04-08-2020, 04:04 PM
 
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UBI is welfare.
No, actually it's not, not in the sense the term is used - unless you're going to include Social Security, Medicare, farm and mining subsidies, corporate tax breaks and industry support/subsidies in the term, along with about fifty other things those losers demand as an entitlement.

But of course, you've never touched any such government giveaway in your life, so I understand your misunderstanding.
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Old 04-08-2020, 04:05 PM
 
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Free money sounds good to me. Free for me but someone else has to pay for it, I imagine.

Only before covid, when people weren't complete morons. These days governments just print money, "why not"...
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