Tax cuts are the best way to put $$ in the hands of the poor.
Raising taxes on the poor, to "give them" more money as proposed by UBI is a terrible policy no matter what this or any other study says.
Raising taxes on the poor, to "give them" more money as proposed by UBI is a terrible policy no matter what this or any other study says.
Privatisation of essential infrastructure leads to price gouging, service failure, and cartel behaviour. There’s zero incentive for corporations to provide cost effective or reliable solutions to problems. The actual incentive is to raise the cost of the service you need to the point where you can barely afford the service, but aren’t motivated to either do without or start your own business to compete.
If you want to know what a private-industry future has in store for any market, just play Raid Shadow Legends for a couple of months.
>Governments are the largest, most inefficient and wasteful monopolies in the world. There's zero incentive for them to provide cost effective or reliable solutions to problems. Private sector alternatives are better the large majority of the time.
and this:
>Privatisation of essential infrastructure leads to price gouging, service failure, and cartel behaviour. There’s zero incentive for corporations to provide cost effective or reliable solutions to problems. The actual incentive is to raise the cost of the service you need to the point where you can barely afford the service, but aren’t motivated to either do without or start your own business to compete.
lies our political divide. It seems like politics is just these two viewpoints bouncing back and forth at one another over and over and over again.
On a completely separate note, if you want people to take you seriously I would suggest not using a video game to bolster your argument.
Once you have experience with capitalism in the real world you will find that “corporations suck” and “governments suck” are not two sides of a political divide but simply two versions of the same problem: power corrupts, and anyone granted power needs regulation and oversight.
This is an incredibly snide, condescending thing to say to someone you don't know anything about. So your experience is the "real world", and anyone who thinks differently from you must be hallucinating, right? Sometimes I think it would be nice to be so confident.
UBI is the same as social security. You're guaranteed to receive less money than whatever you invest in it. The state will likely funnel a major portion of collected tax revenues into dubious projects like giving free healthcare to illegal immigrants and funding transexual beauty pageants.
Then when the program fails as it inevitably will, they'll say the problem is taxes are too low. They'll propose tax hikes and people unfortunately being uneducated will far for it and think its a good idea, the same way many are falling for it right now.
Donald Trump tried to block AT&T from buying Time Warner to prevent market centralization which enables negative trends you object to. Why does the private sector bear 100% of the blame for negative trends, while faults of state regulation and our judicial system go ignored?