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  2. Guaranteed Income Supplement

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    On 12/2/2019 at 10:55 AM, estradling75 said:

    I also like the idea of experiments because they can show/clarify points and ideas we only think we know...

    However I see some issues that a short term experiment can't take into account... For one Inflation.  If people have more money then the cost of goods will go up.  This happens slowly but it does happen... This is why you can't see a movie for a nickel anymore.  If everyone has an extra thousand then in time cost will inflate and that thousand will not cut it.  This puts us right back were we started.  If we are going to do this I want a fix, not something that just passes it down to the next generation.

    The other issue I see is this

    While short term experiments can be funded by donations, grants, or other voluntary means... One can't scale up without it becoming compulsory.  Plus there is the simple fact that if you become dependent on anyone for anything you become subject to control because of said dependency.

     

    All true!

    i am interested, in part, because I find the issue of poverty to be: important to human welfare, complex and frequently counterintuitive. Many people find issues with these 3 features to be interesting.

    My reaction to this area of endeavor, reducing poverty, is ‘Oh, How Interesting! ‘What does the data say? What about this data: suggests that this data may or may not apply?

  3. Coffee as a Prescriptoin

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    Have not read all of thread...long day in hospital w sick relative. I had this issue and there was a list of reasons why only coffee would do. I got my doctor to write me a short note that I took to my bishop. Problem solved. No questions asked.

    My doctor, a Muslim, was most entertained but managed to keep a straight face. My meds come w a long list of side effects. Coffee is the least of my worries.

  4. Gingerbread cookies with Pam

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    On 12/9/2019 at 11:37 AM, mirkwood said:

    @pam

     

    pam.jpg

    😩😢😳😱 How could you?! And I just logged in to tell you how happy I was that Hey Google now accepts my thanks with jolly  Hockey references. ‘I scored the goal but you dropped it on the tape’. I am not sure what the tape is but I imagine that I just got a point for an assist.

  6. Essential Oils, Do they work?

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    4 hours ago, askandanswer said:

    As part of their contract negotiations with Santa, the United Elves Brotherhood has placed a temporary ban on deliveries to Canada. Perhaps you can bring your expertise to assist?

    I am on it! My team and I will begin by inviting the Claus team to mediate. Expect late night sessions powered by cocoa and sugar cookies!

  7. Essential Oils, Do they work?

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    13 hours ago, askandanswer said:

    Rudolph has the same problem at the moment. Speaking as chief reindeer carer, can you let me know if the peppermint has any impact on nasal shininess?

    How is the navigation going? I fear that there is a glitch in the system. Santa has not visited me for sometime! Perhaps Canada is off the route? Our caribou are too fat to pull sleighs lately.

  9. Guaranteed Income Supplement

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    Just now, Grunt said:

    We do have similar programs.  I oppose those, also.

    I see. Well I would like to find programs that spend money more efficiently. As our areas of jurisdiction are very large in some cases, provinces rather than states, the problems of the north are my problems. Handling climate change in a northern country is a major issue. On the plus side the bears are doing well.

  10. Guaranteed Income Supplement

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    12 minutes ago, Grunt said:

    Not the same thing.  Even if I agreed with you that taxation isn't theft, you are comparing apples to oranges.  In one scenario, money is taken and used for communal services that everyone has (mostly) equal access to.  In the other you're directly redistributing wealth.

    Thank you for the clarification. Well let’s see what happens in the study. 

    In my country, we have Welfare. This program is income support for people with disabilities, people in economically deprived parts of the country, temporary assistance for young mothers so we are already handing out money. I had assumed that the US had similar programs but perhaps I am wrong on that? We have a lower income pension for people over a certain age as well. 

  11. Guaranteed Income Supplement

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    Posted · Edited by Sunday21

    24 minutes ago, Grunt said:

    I don't care if it's a terrible idea or not.  Who in their right mind thinks it's acceptable to take money from one person under threat of violence and give it to another?

    But ...you pay taxes now right? You pay for roads, schools, national defence, food stamps, even foreign aid. American troops are serving around the world. The CDC famously has helped to eradicate malaria in many countries. The US has fought in major foreign wars. Surely if you pay taxes you are accustomed to giving money to support other people?

    The GIS programs are often proposed as more efficient ways of reducing poverty. Reducing the effects of poverty has been part of my role as a member of the RS presidency. Poverty control, is an area in which there are strong opinions, so let’s do some studies and find out.

    In addition, my country is changing quite a bit due to climate change in regions of the country in which there is considerable poverty. These areas of the country need to transition and GIS may help. As a northern country the effects of climate change are dramatic. Roads and homes built on permafrost experience serious deterioration.

    The caribou herds in the north of my province are flourishing by the way. Our polar bears are getting fat. 

     

  14. Guaranteed Income Supplement

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    Posted · Edited by Sunday21

    Here’s another study in Mississippi 

    http://springboardto.org/index.php/blog/story/introducing-the-magnolia-mothers-trust

    i can’t read the following article because I am not an subscriber but Washington Post has an article:

    Springboard to Opportunities program in Jackson, Miss., gives moms $1,000 a month as part of a “universal basic income” experiment

    Aug. 31, 2019 · A Mississippi program giving low-income mothers a year of “universal basic income” reflects an idea .... Trying the experiment in conservative Mississippi, though, made the program inherently different.

     

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  18. Essential Oils, Do they work?

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    Scents can remind you of...things...pleasant or unpleasant. These memories can help you cope with insomnia. I took neuroanatomy, not by choice, the area to do with scent weaves itself around the brain. 

    Does some scent have a pleasant memory for you? Pumpkin spice? Peppermint? Lavender? Easy to find out. Go to a bulk barn or winners and sniff the bottles. Put a bit of that scent on your pillow, ban work/news/worry from the bedroom and the scent can help soothe you.