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still_one

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7. What Biden is saying is creating enough available jobs is the answer, not a universal
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 01:59 PM
Sep 2017

basic income.


The question is what happens to those folks who are not eligible for Social Security and are unable to work for one reason or another?

There are a lot of issues involved with a universal basic income.

Would a universal basic income replace social security?

Who would pay for it? Most likely it would be through increased taxes.

How would you determine what the universal basic income is? The cost of living in California or New York is a lot higher than in Mississippi and Alabama.

Bottom line, in this environment there is no way a universal basic income can pass today








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