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Research shows that boosting income and medical coverage does not reduce crime.

https://cityjournal.substack.com/p/does-poverty-cause-crime-...

But Sam Altman, our AI savior, wants UBI. https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/basic-income

He's telling you that so you'll quiet down about the economic destruction even half-assed AI promises to wreak. But that same AI will end up powering the anti-personnel drones when you realize the UBI isn't coming.

Oh, you didn't read the AI savior sarcasm. Or realize he's already back tracked on that.

Anyone that's actually worked a day in their life knows it's all bullshit. Yet Texans keep being the gullible voters they are, giving Sam, Dario, Elon, Mark, and Trump's kids everything they want while their own communities suffer more and more.

Andrew Yang is so upset with you right now.

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