Message from @The Electric Lizard
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There's a 5 cent tax on Soda in my state.
I've written up a thing on healthcare comparisons before
and basically the U.S. has a way higher survival rate than most of europe
first you get some boots and some boot straps @The Electric Lizard
And people have the gall to say it's not a tax, it's a "deposit".
the UK has like a 45% higher death rate in hospitals than the U.S.
their healthcare system is basically garbage
copying it would be silly
then you know. you got a problem with google and your poor?
It's free
make your own google
boom.
it may sound nice on paper to have a UBI, but it's terrible
nothing is free as you have to pay for it in taxes xD
UBI is a brilliant policy
Also, isn't the only reason that those countries can have socialized healthcare because we're bankrolling their militaries?
With increasing automation unemployment will increase
GUYS GUYS
its not UBI
its the Freedom Dividend
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Well that makes it sound better
Automation replacing people wouldn't be a problem if the minimum wage wasn't so damn high.
UBI basically won't work as you can only make money by taxing the people, and you can't tax people more money than they have. You can't give everyone 12,000 a year without taxing them 12,000 a year
Put the word Freedom on it and it makes it sound more appealing
Automation is also overrated as problem as it is only set to replace a few percents of the economy
Unless the phrase is "America bring Freedom to Iraq".
I'm sorry I couldn't resist.
Like 4% replacement of workers is not really enough to justify giving the other 96% 12,000 dollars
you won't make that much money via taxing automated industries
it's just not there
The point is that it should replace more
12,000 dollars a person is just not pluasible
Automation can take the burden off of the American Workers
And in order to stop mass unemployment either we can use UBI
That's like 3 trillion dollars, which results in like, in comparison to our existing 4 trillion dollar budget, a 75% increase
mass employment
Wat
In most cases the State will just be giving back some of the money they have taxed
What if they stopped dumping most of our tax dollars into corporate subsidies