Canada is but the latest country to catch the fevered dream of ending poverty by giving everyone a monthly allowance, regardless of whether a person is actually doing anything productive or not.
Finland expects to have a basic income plan in operation next year. They justify the policy by claiming a simple monthly payment will do away with all the social welfare programs.
The Dutch city of Utrecht is going to implement their own guaranteed “equal capital grant…no questions asked.”
I’m not an economist, but isn’t just giving everyone money unconditionally highly inflationary?
Think fish bait with a government hook attached to it.
Once swallowed, your soul belongs to the state – just like they want you to be.
Basic Econ 101 it can’t work
Next thing you know, everyone has a new car, iphone, tats, jewelry etc and is complaining they dont have enough money to feed the children.
I wish someone would open a nightclub along these lines…
Guaranteed free liquor
Guaranteed free hotties for everyone
Utopia!
I wish they started this shit sixty years ago so I could devote more time
to golf. Damn! “I coulda been a contender.”
Life just ain’t fair, pilgrim
The Socialists are making the money we work so hard to earn more and more worthless. We MUST stop them at every turn.
Cloward–Piven , the progs wet dream..
We have it, too. We, disingenuously, call it the “safety net” or some other euphemism. WIC, EBT, Welfare, Assistance, Unemployment, Whatever … it pays more to be a parasite than it does to work.
And considering that our entire economy is a farce, that ain’t such a bad thing.