"what if jobs are not the solution but the problem?"

[guillaumeb]

1. A universal income? What a Marxist idea.

Except for the fact that one President already proposed a universal basic income, or UBI. We all know that it was not President Obama, but the President who proposed a UBI was that well known ultra-liberal Richard Nixon.

And the fact that a conservative proposed that idea should not really be a surprise. Today's GOP is dominated by Libertarians, not classic conservatives. A conservative argument for a UBI is that, given that consumer spending makes up 70% of the GDP, a UBI would almost guarantee that the GDP would remain relatively steady. So businesses would know that consumers would always have enough income to keep spending on at least a basic level.

This UBI would allow people to take part time jobs such as Uber type jobs if they wished, with the thought being that the Uber non-living wage job would be in addition to the UBI.

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