It's an extremely small project with only 600 families total that will be able to qualify and it's being funded by a private company. It's a test run for potential ubi in the future.
The stockton program was rather successful and shut down the usual talking points that when given "free" money people would become lazy and wasteful, it instead enabled people to gain better employment because when you aren't stressing about money you're more willing to take positive career risks.
I hope ubi catches on soonish
I think we need to take half your paycheck and give to these people.
You're justifying racism on "oh is just small"? or am I misreading what you wrote?
You're misreading what I wrote, it's a small amount of people and I fully believe it can do way more. Stockton stuck to "people had to have lived in a neighborhood of Stockton in which the median income was at or below $46,033".
I don't agree with excluding others based on race and the idea that they can't suffer through poverty because of it and quite frankly reeks of distraction tactics. Make the poverty class fight over race while we ignore those that accumulate wealth.
If I understood correctly Oakland ubi scheme has put a lot of shit in to qualify, you have to be a person of color or identify as a person of color, you have to have a child under the age of 18 to qualify, I'm not entirely sure if they have a restriction on how many years you'd have to have lived in that area? Possibly but i don't think it was mentioned.
It's unnecessary and definitely not right, but it's on purpose.
If I could be assured that half my paycheck would go to medicare for all, improvement of the community, fighting food deserts, trade training and affordable housing and fighting poverty I'd happily give it up, i don't think that's a big deal.
Damn, half your paycheck? hmm okay, I hear you saying that but why arn't you doing it?
I already vote for higher taxes to improve community functions and do voluntary kitchen work when it was available to feed homeless people in addition to occasionally joining, making and giving out care packages, i was able to do more when I was doing social work in ways of services/ resources. It makes me feel like a good person when I'm otherwise having bad thoughts.
Anyway, it's wrong and unconstitutional to treat people different based on our skin color. I thought we got past this 50 years ago, now it's back. Seems some people want to keep racism around for some reason.
50 years isn't a long time, it's enough time to be disgruntled and have resentment about bit it's definitely not enough time to get past it, certainly there's still many slurs being thrown around towards folks, there's still heavy propaganda going on in kids school about it too, it's never going to truly go away.
You think those rich people don't deserved to be rich?
No. Tax the rich.
what about the ones that came from other countries , poor, and worked hard and made it big. Can they keep their money?
No, they should be taxed too.
or it it just the rich families that deserve your Robin Hood economics?
Its the people that are making millions upon millions each year that should be taxed. no matter what country they came from, what their starting situation was, if they are making millions each year they should be taxed, they should also contribute to their/the community the same way their employees do. more, even.
