re: Universal Basic Income Test? (Shreveport)

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I know healthcare we spend more per capita by a pretty wide margin

The results are due to an unhealthy population. Doesn't matter how good the actual healthcare is. You're never going to have great health outcomes with a population that refuses to make good health choices.

Not sure about education but if there is one positive from it, our university system is the envy of the rest of the world. Not even close really.

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Again though, is it public (i.e. government) spending or private spending? And as far as the Healthcare thing goes, I think Doug Stanhope said it best:

Americans don't deserve free health care

Federal Budget Outlays

You may have to calculate per capa yourself, but the budget and outlays are pretty available.

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This means we either have mass inefficiency from parasitic bureaucratic entrenchment and overregulation, or we live in a nation of retards.

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If you have a family of 4 or 5 that is utilizing several different government assistance programs the dollar value that it's worth to the family might be something like 18K annually.

The actual cost to the taxpayer is more like 60K dollars

I found this LINK


Sounds like something I've always said before. Our doctors are state sanctioned drug dealers and we're spending so much trying to find the next pill you can't live without.

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Our doctors are state sanctioned drug dealers

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I’m still waiting on my check

I am for a well though out UBI funded largely by a VAT, cuts to sime social programs and a few other things - to be effective it needs to take place along with major educational reform though. Put financial education classes, basic coding, and decent counseling in every high school - give 18 year olds some money to help them pursue school, maube start a business, etc.

Some will spend it poorly - but maybe next month theh make better choices. Dont see a good argument for holding back resources that would be huge for a strong majority of the country because we are afraid of how a minority will spend it.

And honestly if someone goes and wastes it all the the bar or buying random bullshite - who cares? That just means 100% of it got circulated back into the economy.

The only real problem is people that would go spend it on drugs and stuff that doesnt recirculate. There arent a ton of peope who get money and immediately decide to take up drugs - id wager that a notable portion of current drug users may be able to seek treatment, with UBI offering them a chance to get out of thay mess. The portugal plan seems to indicate thag integrating users back into society and the economy has a far better retention ras te of sobriety than whatever it is we do.

This is good news for me. I own property up in Benton which I now expect a sharp increase in value due to the taxpayers fleeing shreveport

That it would but will never happen as the loss of jobs for those who administer said programs would be political suicide. I would imagine, like most things, 70 to 80% of the costs are for personnel.

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School performance is mostly about personal motivation. That’s a cultural problem.

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I think there is an argument that we have this issue because of the way school is set up. I don't know if that's true, or what the solution is, but I can certainly see how people have an issue with the public school system.