Universal Basic Income

[Pat Mustard]

And what of the cost to administer this program?

It'll be a lot less than the cost of allowing 20%+ of the population live at below the poverty line, which is what is happening now.

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I suppose you could raise taxes but you would have to raise them a lot to fund something like this,

The richest ten percent (who own roughly 2/3 of the worlds wealth and derive a similar income) functionally pay no taxes. How about we get them to pay, make them for once, in their shitty little parasitic lives, contribute to the society which has given them so much?

Or is the fantasy of Horatio Alger too strong in this world?