Newark, NJ is now planning a Universal Basic Income test program that will give people free money for doing nothing.
New tourism slogan – New Jersey: how much do we have to pay you to live here?
Newark, NJ is now planning a Universal Basic Income test program that will give people free money for doing nothing.
New tourism slogan – New Jersey: how much do we have to pay you to live here?
“. . . will give people free money for doing nothing.”
… like their city auditors?
Home to all kinds of rotten pork, political and otherwise.
From the linked article:
“NEW JERSEY (FOX 5 NY) – Getting a paycheck for doing nothing could be in the future for residents of New Jersey’s largest city. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka says . . . .”
— he is not, in fact, a Star Wars character.
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“. . . the city is going to study a pilot program to provide a universal basic income, or basically guaranteeing income for all residents whether they have a job.”
— “or not,” murmered everyone who read the article, to the writer and editor.
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“He made the statement during his annual State of the City address Tuesday night at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center”
— bravely ignoring the irony of the Center’s performers not collecting the well-deserved salary they would have, had they been on the stage while he was running his yap.
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“We believe in Universal Basic Income, especially in a time where studies have shown that families that have a crisis of just $400 in a month may experience a setback that may be difficult even impossible to recover from,” Baraka said,
— denying for the tenth time that his last name ended in “-bama.”
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He noted that a third of the city still lives in poverty. He didn’t release any more details on the plan, like how it would be funded or when a final decision would be made.
— making him a worthy Democratic candidate for president, like former Newark mayor Cory Booker, who solved every problem in this city of 280,000 residents, and now looks forward to moving on to do the same for the country.
Who’s going to pay for this worthy program?? Well let me take a wild guess. If 1/3rd of the population of Newark is living in poverty (ie: no taxable income) then obviously the other 2/3rd’s of Newark’s population are going to have to pony up the money. Unless of course the mayor can get the rest of the people of NJ to pay for this program. That is not as far fetched as it sounds being as most of the population of NJ is made up of craizoid tax loving Democrats, so you just never know…they might actually go for it.
On the other hand the “free money” we Alaskans receive every year is NOT derived from taxes levied on the people of the state, it comes from royalties and taxes levied on the oil companies operating within the state.
I’m guessing the Feds — citizens of the other 49 states — will be funding Newark’s “Doing-Pretty-Welfare” through some obscure grant or other.
Getting a paycheck for doing nothing
Can we sign up both of their Senators? The doing nothing is required, right?
♫
Try to see it my way
Do I have to keep on working when I could be home?
Why’d you see it your way
Run the risk of knowing that the gov may soon be Rome?
Weekend work is out
Weekend work is out
Think of what you’re saying:
I can smoke a bong and steal and drink, and it’s my right.
Think of what I’m saying —
I apply for aid and still get paid and say good night.
Weekend work is out
Weekend work is out
I need child support, and on your dime
No fussing with FICA, my friend;
I have always thought
That it beats crime
So things are askew once again.
Try to send it my way
Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong
Why divert it your way?
There’s a chance that funds are getting short before too long…
Weekend work is out
Weekend work is out
Lifetime on the tube, and there’s no time
For bussing, moonlighting, my friend;
I have always thought
A life of crime
Would make things askew once again.
Try to send it my way
Do I have to keep on working when I can be home?
Why’d you see it your way —
Run the risk of knowing that the gov is like Stockholm?
Weekend work is out
Weekend work is out!
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Run the risk of knowing that the gov may soon be Rome.
the Gov “will throw you a bone”?
what the Gov “gives maybe a loan”?
the Gov “may call the loan”?
the Gov “may take back your phone.”?
the Gov “won’t ever leave you alone.”?
AOC says, “We can twerk it out”
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[sipping first draft:] “That’s what I’m trying to tell you, kid. I’m on my first draft.”
AOC should know, she’s in the 99th percentile in the “High stakes” test that doesn’t use percentiles for their scoring.
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