evilgenius wrote:Then, too, the current gig situation looks short lived. Pretty soon it will give way to automation. Is that when the people will organize? Is that when the supply side, the entrepreneurs responsible for much of this, many of whom can already see where this is going, will do something about it. It is from the supply side that the idea of a universal basic income has the most support. But wouldn't that just be like returning to the dole?
evilgenius wrote: There has been a lot of hemming and hawing about background checks.
I do think the pace of technological change surrounding this issue is progressing far faster than any political reaction to it can. We may wind up scrapping several well intentioned political responses before things take final shape. We may contradict ourselves.
Yonnipun wrote:I myself belive that universal basic income is inevitable in the nearest future. There simply will be no job for the average Joe. I also think that without overbreeding control a basic income is a catastrophic failure. Therefore in order to make it work and to stop the overpolulation the basic income should be paid only for them who voluntarily let themselves sterilized.
Cog wrote:So you are going to make foreign countries play nice in their trading with us how exactly? Perhaps we could send Obama so he can do some bows and begging. He was good at that. In business you play hardball and you play to win. Sorry Outcast, but I'll take Trump's judgment on tariffs above the thirty years of bad trade deals we have already been subjected to.
How do I know you are progressive? You have told me this in the following ways:
1) You think taxes are too low(Against tax cuts)
2) You favor a universal basic income
3) You support the unfair trade deals where the USA gets screwed(You support doing nothing to correct these unfair deals)
The proposal calls for a new House select committee to draft broad legislation that would make the United States economy carbon-neutral and remove greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere and oceans.
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This proposal likely faces gargantuan roadblocks in Congress — from wealthy oil-industry lobbyists to climate-science-denying members of Congress to moderate Democrats who don't believe the plan is necessary.
For example, Ocasio-Cortez's proposal calls for a job-guarantee program to be included in any Green New Deal legislation. It also calls for universal health care and basic income programs, as well as labor union involvement.
Her draft also acknowledges that climate change disproportionately harms low-income people and communities of color, and says any Green New Deal legislation must account for the disparities.
Cog wrote:We aren't talking about roads and power plants Newfie. We are talking about the left's positions that involve confiscating and redistributing wealth. Universal basic income, universal health care, free college, free stuff galore are the things I am talking about. The left feels I owe my money to others, to make up for what they do not have. If they feel they need these things, then go out and earn it. Or do without.
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