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tintory ( tintory@lemm.ee )  to Politics · 3 years ago

Why Republicans are fighting the basic-income programs many cities and states are adopting: 'Is money a birthright now?'

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Why Republicans are fighting the basic-income programs many cities and states are adopting: 'Is money a birthright now?'

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tintory ( tintory@lemm.ee )  to Politics · 3 years ago
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Republican lawmakers from five states are seeking to ban guaranteed basic-income programs, citing costs for taxpayers.
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    ‘Is money a birthright now?’

    If it’s not, then logically a 100% inheritance tax must be imposed. After all, nobody is entitled to money just for being born, right?

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      In that case, I would burn all my money rather than pay it in taxes before I died. Just put every single penny you have into Bitcoin or something and then purposely delete the private keys.

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          Because I don’t really know of any charities that I would support, but I could support some sort of open source software, I guess, like donate everything to fdroid, or something.

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            FOSS related: The Free Software Foundation, The Software Freedom Conservency, The Software Freedom Law Center, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (aka the EFF), Debian, the Mozilla Foundation, the Document Foundation (aka Libreoffice)…

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        In the long run, nearly the same effect as 100% inheritance tax anyways.

        The government won’t know the cash has been removed from the economy, but it’ll have been removed all the same.

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          Not really because I sure as hell wouldn’t be paying it to the government.

          • Saik0 ( Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com ) 
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            They’ll just print it regardless.

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            Pretty spiteful of you

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              Not to mention anti-social.

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              By not paying it to the government, I am not personally supporting killing people across the world. So it seems like the moral thing to do.

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            Children like you are exactly why we should do this.

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