Arkouda

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

A few sources are citing reports that FIFA is currently considering it and possibly moving the games to Canada. There is a huge pressure on the organization based on reporting due to immigration and other issues with the US.

There isn't much but I can imagine more will come out as the information does.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

A couple favourites:

"I should have never switched from scotch to martinis." Marlon Brando

"I can't take it anymore!" -Rodney Dangerfield

If I could choose what mine would be:

"Knock, knock..."

"Who's there?"

dead

I don't know why, but I find this incredibly humourous.

Related, I don't want to be buried in a graveyard but if I did I would want "I thought it would be funny" on my gravestone.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

Someone suggested placing tariffs on people it seems. Another good reason to never travel to the US.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is the best answer for me so far. I like it!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago

I disagree with the extreme measure, posit that a less extreme measure would work just as well or better, and await any kind of data and proper analysis to support your point of view like I have already done.

I will not continue the conversation otherwise, so take care of yourself if you choose to respond differently.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I haven’t seen any numbers either for or against it, so I can’t say anything about viability. If anyone knows enough to run the numbers, I’d like to see it. The problem with the calculations you show above is that you assume the value of money doesn’t change when the world around it changes, but it does.

Especially so if you make a large change like implementing UBI. We need to think about this in terms of resources.

My calculations don't assume anything. I literally used age statistics, the Ontario framework for the payout, and net revenue of the Federal Government to demonstrate the cost of UBI. Find me more data, I will give you better calculations.

Feel free to provide data on your claim about this massive shift you assume I didn't account for. Preferably which countries have instituted UBI and demonstrated this outcome.

The question you should be asking is whether there’s enough food / housing / labour within the country to fulfill everyone’s basic needs.

There is more than enough food from waste alone to feed every single person on the planet, let alone a small country. There is enough housing if we factor in how many empty units, houses, and the like exist because of high cost; What we don't have we have ways of providing. There is enough labour to go around when Citizens and residents take the available jobs. The reason why we need TFW's and things of that nature is because citizens and residents refuse to work on farms even though that is constant seasonal work. The labour is there, the willingness doesn't seem to be.

I don't need to ask a question like that, because it has nothing to do with my point that the cost of UBI is excessive, unmanageable, and there are better ways to do things. We already have social safety nets that need improving for people in need. Every single person doesn't need help, but the social services required by others do.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That is a false equivalency.

I am also arguing against UBI, so thank you for adding additional points to my argument.

Take care.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

“Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a social welfare concept that proposes providing all citizens or residents of a particular country or region with a regular, unconditional sum of money, regardless of their income, employment status, or wealth

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I am 9.4km away from where I was born, in a different city, and I don't consider where I was born my home.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If someone can make hundreds of millions of dollars while being taxed at 80% (Or 2 million net earned per 10 million gross gained at the top of my 5 minute tax structure) they either cheated and should be dealt with appropriately, or deserve it for never sleeping.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago

Except that the amount for a couple in the article was 24K, which is 8K less than individually. You even quoted the 24K and disregarded it.

"Couples should not receive less under a Universal Basic Income. The point of UBI is every individual receives the same payment regardless of their potential status’."

If you have 60K employment income, then the UBI would push you to 76K and the UBI would effectively be taxed at the highest rate. If your only income was UBI then you would exceed the basic personal exemption, and would pay zero tax.

Everyone gets the same UBI, but some people pay more tax on it if they have other income.

"This is not UBI. The point of UBI is to be the basic income separate from working income, and not impacted by what one makes."

Again, Feel free to provide all of your own data and analysis to demonstrate your assertions.

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