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Marengo Donating Member (296 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 06:11 PM
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A Refresher: "The Case for a Guaranteed Minimum Income"
My favorite reason in favor:

"9. A GMI allows the uniquely American emphasis on "freedom" to be expressed in a way that is profoundly meaningful in our daily lives. Personal liberty is sharply abridged and even made a mockery of when citizens are forced by economic circumstance to spend the majority of their waking lives doing work that is not meaningful to them as individuals. Reporting daily to a degrading job one despises just to keep food on the table and the lights burning is not "freedom" in any meaningful sense, and if we are serious about being a beacon of human liberty, we must make people free in the tangible and immediate ways that really matter each day of their lives."

Article: http://sites.google.com/site/jdquirk/articles/guaranteed-income
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Davis_X_Machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 06:16 PM
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1. You might be interested...
Edited on Sat Sep-11-10 06:18 PM by Davis_X_Machina
...in the work of the Johnson/Nixon-era President's Commission on Income Maintenance Systems.

It's all from so long ago that there's nothing available except dead-tree.

The EITC is a much-morphed offspring of that effort.

Yes, Virginia, there was a time when a Republican president, with bi-partisan support, could support such a commission, created though it was by his Democratic predecessor.

Bipartisanship -- not just a slogan.
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billlll Donating Member (434 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 07:19 PM
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2. summary of dollars given under this idea in parts of Europw now?
Seek info.

Holland is one area I think.
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 08:15 PM
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3. How much will you give up in income to pay for your GOP neighbor?
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My Good Babushka Donating Member (966 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 09:22 PM
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4. Wouldn't have to pay any more in taxes than we do now
and we could dismantle every poverty program that subsidizes cheap labor for US tightwad companies. No more food stamps or welfare and their attendant fraud and abuses. That frees up a lot of money.
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Marengo Donating Member (296 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 11:33 PM
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6. Bingo...That's the beauty of the GMI N/T
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Marengo Donating Member (296 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 11:32 PM
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5. Political affiliation is irrelevant
People in need are people in need. Withholding assistance because someone doesn't share your political beliefs is hardly a progressive value.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 01:42 AM
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7. K&R
If you are a wage slave you are not free no matter how much the Libertarians insist you are. It is what Marx called something like "merely formal (legal) freedom" rather than freedom in fact.
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