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Do people who support Curtis Sliwa know that he wants to implement a Universal Basic Income? That is a radical progressive idea.
Actually, he only wants to do a small experiment with it. He would take 500 poor people who agree to $1,100 per month UBI, rather than traditional welfare. UBI does not have any strings attached, ie, it will not be taken away if these people find employment to supplement the UBI. He would give them this UBI for 2 years, and then look whether the experiment has favorable economic results. I think it is a genius plan.
If you gave $1,000 per month to every adult older than 18 who is not receiving soc security or disability, in NY (city + state), and eliminated other welfare programs, that would use up less than a half of the annual state funds budget, and some of that money (ie, the UBI given to taxpayers) would come back to the state and city in the form of tax revenue.
A PLAN FOR NYC FAMILIES
ADVANCING COMMUNITY EDUCATION UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME PLAN
The goal of Curtis Sliwa’s ACE-UBI Plan is to help working families meet the demands of childcare and ensure that their children receive the best possible educational services.
The ACE-UBI Plan will provide eligible working families with an annual income payment of $2,000, which may be utilized for childcare, tutors, and other education services for their children.
The program will be supported by funding re-allocations from ThriveNYC and the New York City Department of Education. Both of these existing programs maintain funding in excess of $37 billion annually. By re-allocating just 0.54% of this existing budget to ACE-UBI, we can deliver relief to 100,000 NYC families without raising a single dollar in new tax revenue.
It is time for New York City to help its children, rather than squandering assets on high-salaried Department of Education (DOE) bureaucrats[1] and $1 billion mayoral pet-projects (ThriveNYC).[2]
In the 2021-22 schoolyear, the Department of Education will receive over $36 billion in funding.[3] However, an overwhelming portion of this budget will be spent on administrative bureaucracy, agencies, pensions, consultants, and other non-academic services.[4] The DOE employs over 1,189 bureaucrats that earn $125,000 to $262,000 annually.[5]
At the same time, NYC has wasted $1 billion on ThriveNYC. Vulnerable communities continue to struggle with mental health issues, both on the streets and in the home. We must refocus education on student learning and refocus social health and development on promoting stable family units. To refocus and achieve these goals, we must return financial power to the people—and away from wasteful bureaucrats. My ACE-UBI Plan will achieve these goals.
To be eligible for the ACE-UBI payment of $2,000 annually, families must meet the following requirements:
Households with one or more children in New York City schools within the Metropolitan area. (including public, vocational, private, religious, parochial, and charter schools)
Provide proof that the household parent(s) is/are actively holding employment and/or actively seeking employment.
Fall within the threshold of total household income reflecting extreme poverty.[6]
A PLAN FOR NYC FAMILIES
ADVANCING COMMUNITY EDUCATION UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME PLAN
The goal of Curtis Sliwa’s ACE-UBI Plan is to help working families meet the demands of childcare and ensure that their children receive the best possible educational services.
The ACE-UBI Plan will provide eligible working families with an annual income payment of $2,000, which may be utilized for childcare, tutors, and other education services for their children.
The program will be supported by funding re-allocations from ThriveNYC and the New York City Department of Education. Both of these existing programs maintain funding in excess of $37 billion annually. By re-allocating just 0.54% of this existing budget to ACE-UBI, we can deliver relief to 100,000 NYC families without raising a single dollar in new tax revenue.
It is time for New York City to help its children, rather than squandering assets on high-salaried Department of Education (DOE) bureaucrats[1] and $1 billion mayoral pet-projects (ThriveNYC).[2]
In the 2021-22 schoolyear, the Department of Education will receive over $36 billion in funding.[3] However, an overwhelming portion of this budget will be spent on administrative bureaucracy, agencies, pensions, consultants, and other non-academic services.[4] The DOE employs over 1,189 bureaucrats that earn $125,000 to $262,000 annually.[5]
At the same time, NYC has wasted $1 billion on ThriveNYC. Vulnerable communities continue to struggle with mental health issues, both on the streets and in the home. We must refocus education on student learning and refocus social health and development on promoting stable family units. To refocus and achieve these goals, we must return financial power to the people—and away from wasteful bureaucrats. My ACE-UBI Plan will achieve these goals.
To be eligible for the ACE-UBI payment of $2,000 annually, families must meet the following requirements:
Households with one or more children in New York City schools within the Metropolitan area. (including public, vocational, private, religious, parochial, and charter schools)
Provide proof that the household parent(s) is/are actively holding employment and/or actively seeking employment. Fall within the threshold of total household income reflecting extreme poverty.[6]
I did not confuse anything. Sliwa wants to do two different things. Yes, as mentioned above, he wants to discontinue ThriveNYC and partly defund Dept of Education, and reallocate these funds to $2,000 per year given directly to each NYC family with children that has household income below a certain threshold.
Separately, he wants to conduct an experiment giving $1,100 per month for 2 years to 500 New Yorkers. Not exactly sure how he will select those 500, but I assume they will need to be living in some form of poverty. Once they are enrolled in the experiment, there won't be further means testing, ie, they are free to get a job and earn as much as they want, and will still receive their UBI. He wants to see what they will do with the funds & their life, and wants to see whether UBI is economically advantageous and feasible. UBI is fundamentally a conservative idea (provided that it replaces all other forms of welfare) that first came close to implementation during Nixon, and has been successfully upheld (using smaller annual amounts of $) by Republican state government in Alaska.
No real Republican would campaign on implementing universal basic income. The details don’t matter much. Once it is in place then the amounts and eligibility can and will change and it would never be repealed. Curtis shouldn’t pretend to be a Republican and then make one of his few specific goals a dream program of socialists.
to conduct an experiment giving $1,100 per month for 2 years to 500 New Yorkers. Not exactly sure how he will select those 500, but I assume they will need to be living in some form of poverty. Once they are enrolled in the experiment, there won't be further means testing, ie, they are free to get a job and earn as much as they want, and will still receive their UBI. He wants to see what they will do with the funds & their life, and wants to see whether UBI is economically advantageous and feasible. UBI is fundamentally a conservative idea (provided that it replaces all other forms of welfare) that first came close to implementation during Nixon, and has been successfully upheld (using smaller annual amounts of $) by Republican state government in Alaska.
you are right I didn't know about this
IT is very similar to Yang's plan which was much more moderate in his mayoral campaign then the form he was talking about in his presidential bid
Yeah it's insane how DeBlasios wife literally got away with 1B in money laundering.
I mean sheesh pocket 5 million for yourself and use the rest to get these people off the streets. She's damn near as bad and obvious as the 1MDB scandal.
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