Unconditional Basic Income Guarantee

Humans Need Not Apply. Why equivalent of 19century #JobSecurity is 21century livable #IncomeSecurity

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"You may say, 'I don't care about politics, I don't care about anybody spying on me..." but

74:31 we all have the ability to contribute. and you know,

In May 1968. Isn't 50 years long enough?

"In May 1968, 1200 economists signed a petition in support of a negative income tax (aka, Basic Income). "It gives help in the form most useful to the individual, namely, cash," wrote Milton Friedman."

’’Liberal and conservative economists could agree that the negative income tax, which would provide universal, nationally uniform cash payments, would increase efficiency by reducing administrative costs and allowing individuals to pursue their own preferences."

"The curse of the poor is literally their poverty. Give them more money," urged Paul Samuelson, "and not only they but their progeny can break through the vicious circle."

"Guaranteed income was seen as a technically superior mechanism; a simple, efficient, visible transfer would replace a myriad of complex programs with their hidden costs. The devotion of economists to cost minimization through less bureaucratic procedures appears to have overridden the political implications of making it so easy to distribute welfare payments."

"The ways to prevent poverty are well known to us all. Allow every

baby a chance to be born wanted, raised in good health, educated to full

capacity, accepted upon individual merit, welcomed to a range of job

choices according to capacity and interest, paid a good wage, insured at

adequate levels against the economic hazards of the industrial economy,

and assured a comfortable house in a supportive neighborhood, and

opportunities for cultural enrichment, participation in the decisions

affecting his own life, and survival into a respected and secure old age.

Please add under “How Much?”

Amount: 100% free room and board, snack shops, laundry service, cable & internet, in a nice college campus setting, plus monthly pocket cash.

How ‘bout every law abiding citizen gets the same deal that society’s most twisted sociopaths get? How ‘bout that?

Next, please search “how much does it cost to incarcerate Bernie Madoff” and make that number one of the #GAI #UBI comparables.

This, via TheWire:

"Everything's provided for you."

"Bernie Madoff, whose [‘okay food’ and ‘like college campus’] housing is currently provided by the United States government, thanks to his having siphoned billions of dollars from clients into his own pockets, is ‘not a great fan of redistribution of wealth.’"

"Just let that sit for a second."

"Now, we've got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

And this is what we must see as we move on. What has happened is that we have had it wrong and confused in our own country, and this has led Negro Americans in the past to seek their goals through power devoid of love and conscience. This is leading a few extremists today to advocate for Negroes the same destructive and conscienceless power that they have justly abhorred in whites. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times. Developing a Program?

"We must develop a program that will drive the nation to a guaranteed annual income."

Now, early in this [20th] century this proposal would have been greeted with ridicule and denunciation, as destructive of initiative and responsibility. At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual's ability and talents. And, in the thinking of that day, the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber. We've come a long way in our understanding of human motivation and of the blind operation of our economic system. Now we realize that dislocations in the market operations of our economy and the prevalence of discrimination thrust people into idleness and bind them in constant or frequent unemployment against their will. Today the poor are less often dismissed, I hope, from our consciences by being branded as inferior or incompetent.

We also know that no matter how dynamically the economy develops and expands, it does not eliminate all poverty.

The problem indicates that our emphasis must be twofold. We must create full employment or we must create incomes. People must be made consumers by one method or the other. Once they are placed in this position we need to be concerned that the potential of the individual is not wasted. New forms of work that enhance the social good will have to be devised for those for whom traditional jobs are not available. In I879 Henry George anticipated this state of affairs when he wrote in Progress and Poverty:

The fact is that the work which improves the condition of mankind, the work which extends knowledge and increases power and enriches literature and elevates thought, is not done to secure a living. It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster, or by anirnal (sic) necessity. It is the work of men who somehow find a form of work that brings a security for its own sake and a state of society where want is abolished.

Work of this sort could be enormously increased, and we are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished. The poor transformed into purchasers will do a great deal on their own to alter housing decay. Negroes who have a double disability will have a greater effect on discrimination when they have the additional weapon of cash to use in their struggle.

Beyond these advantages, a host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.

Now our country can do this. John Kenneth Galbraith said that a guaranteed annual income could be done [in 1967] for about twenty billion dollars a year. And I say to you today, that if our nation can spend thirty-five billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and twenty billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here on earth."

The heart of unconditional #BasicIncome is about honoring and insuring fundamental human dignity as defined by Article 25, Universal Declaration of Human Rights. http://j.mp/Article25UDHR

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