Guaranteed income pilot in Illinois

[Mik]

$500 a month for 3250 families in Cook County, no strings attached. Seems ridiculous to me. $500 in Cook County isn't going to buy much of anything.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/applications-have-opened-for-a-huge-new-guaranteed-income-pilot-in-illinois-which-officials-say-is-the-biggest-scheme-of-its-kind/ar-AA12Hvm1?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=7aea1ff97ca04731bdb230e08f124e47

[Axtremus]

@Mik said in Guaranteed income pilot in Illinois:

$500 a month for 3250 families in Cook County, no strings attached. Seems ridiculous to me. $500 in Cook County isn't going to buy much of anything.

What amount of money should they raise the payout to so it will not seem ridiculous to you?

[Mik]

Zero. The government should not be guaranteeing income.

Whatever government gives to one must first be taken from another.

[mark]

@Axtremus said in Guaranteed income pilot in Illinois:

@Mik said in Guaranteed income pilot in Illinois:

$500 a month for 3250 families in Cook County, no strings attached. Seems ridiculous to me. $500 in Cook County isn't going to buy much of anything.

What amount of money should they raise the payout to so it will not seem ridiculous to you?

-500.00

Until we have automated every job and invent and perfect the matter replicator, everyone who can work, should work. If we have automated so many jobs that there are not enough for everyone, then we could start talks on giving everyone a slice of the excess.

[mark]

And, why only 3,250 people? What makes the 3,251st person different?

[Mik]

In this case it's because they're SOL.

[Copper]

@Mik said in Guaranteed income pilot in Illinois:

isn't going to buy much of anything.

Votes, it buys votes.

I believe the going price used to be $2. This is a big increase.