5 Reasons to Consider a No-Strings-Attached, Basic Income for All Americans

[Lunacee_2013]

74. Kickity.

The more I hear about this, the more I like it. Give everyone a bare minimum yearly wage and add on health care and education, tax the top 1%er types and their corporations to get the money to fund it. That way everyone is covered, and they have a house to live in. It doesn't have to be nice and fancy, just basic. If people want nice and fancy, then they can work for it, just like everybody else should. We Americans have enough to help ourselves! It's depressing to see homeless people on the streets, to talk to them and to hear just how close their lives mimic my own. I can only take so much, yet they've taken so much more. I don't see how they do it, except that they have no other choice. And what about the mentally ill? Just today I had a guy who was talking to himself stop and make a path right through traffic for me (I'm mostly legally blind) to cross the road. What about him? Just because he hears voices that are not there, does that mean we as a society get to throw him away? He never ûasked for anything, just waved and wished me a safe afternoon as I walked by.

Sorry, I've kinda gotten OT, but how do we bring up everyone who is in poverty? I'm tired of seeing hungry kids and homeless vets and sick old people almost everyday. It makes my eyes water even now, just thinking about it. And I know the only reason I'm not on the streets with them is luck. Luck and family and that's it. I'm having second thoughts about posting this now, but I think it's important to remember just how much programs like this would help change people's lives for the better.