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RE: Mark Zuckerberg: Free Money for Everyone (A Mark Dice Roast!)
I am confused by your second sentence re the prime minister and president.
Setting this aside, I appreciate what you are saying mobbs and the personal example gave. However in the end someone else is paying for me - and this is socialism. So let me now quoting another UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher in saying...
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
SK.
Yeah it's a famous quote. But again, it's not really socialism in any way that we don't already live. That's what tax is. We pool money together via tax and it goes towards what we need. This idea is just pushing that idea a little further when we are wealthy enough. We already have welfare, for example.
By UK prime minister, I mean, Jeremy Corbyn who is campaigning to be prime minister currently, is always 'accused' of being a socialist, because he wants things like 'free education', 'improve the national health service' 'more police on the streets', 'higher minimum wage'. It's simply making better use of the tax being paid already, it's not forcing everybody to convert to communism.
Anyway, I see a lot needs to be ironed out with the idea too, so I guess only time will tell. Good discussion!
There is already enough tax money coming into the system in the U.S. to be able to pay for a universal basic income for people here. All we have to do is refocus the money away from killing civilians in the Middle East to helping people here at home.