Canada Guaranteed National Income

[Guest MormonGator]

45 minutes ago, Traveler said:

There are three things necessary for eliminating poverty (poor and homelessness) and surprise! money is not one of the three things.

 

The Traveler

 

1. Finish high school

2. Marry before having a child. 

3. Don't have that child until you are about 21. 

 

[anatess2]

32 minutes ago, MormonGator said:

 

1. Finish high school

2. Marry before having a child. 

3. Don't have that child until you are about 21. 

 

1. Finish high school.

2. Get a job.

3.  Don't have a child out of marriage.

Doesn't matter if you're under 21.

[mordorbund]

14 hours ago, Sunday21 said:

The guaranteed income programs in Finland and Ontario have been cancelled. In Ontario, the Conservative Party got in and cancelled the program, they were trying an income subsidy in 3 locations. The plan was to give people a low level of income, below the level that a person could live on, This amount of money might allow them to buy antidepressants or to get some education. The idea was to stop spending money on monitoring people and instead give the money directly to people. Anyway cancelled in the 3 locations in Ontario.

This illustrates one of the problems with UBI (which, I don't think was raised earlier). If the income is coming from the government, it can be cut off by the government. On the federal level, the US credit rating dropped from AAA to AA because of congressional arguments over the budget. And that's to say nothing about spending money earmarked for other purposes. On local levels, how fiscally trustworthy do you think you're administrators are?