Yeah, this is my full time job. I cant :(
So you acknowledge that the "Venezuela" comment is a straw man argument because the proper comparison would be places like Canada and Europe, where the middle class hasn't been entirely gutted, and you now want to call 78% of Americans deadbeats?https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2019/01/11/live-paycheck-to-paycheck-government-shutdown/#7b1f95f14f10 …
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Venezuela is a perfectly viable comparison. Canada tried UBI & pulled the plug because it was too expensive & didn't work. Europe is sliding into a recession & many of the countries are choking on the cost of their welfare politics and improper immigration policies.
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Venezuela is a developing nation that suffers from colonialism. The correct comparison is other advanced OECD countries, all of whom have stronger middle classes, longer lifespans, higher literacy/numeracy rates, lower infant mortality, etc. Their "problems" are dwarfed by ourspic.twitter.com/LjF3eMNubi
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Venezuela is what you get when you handicap and drive out business, offer unrealistic entitlements, and tax everyone into oblivion. When UBI drives inflation, these stooges will try price fixing, which leads to massive shortages & we all starve as the dollar becomes valueless.
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Venezuela is what you get with a developing nation that suffers from a long history of colonialism. The US has the lowest tax burden of pretty much any OECD country & the middle class lacks buying power. UBI would be plugging a hole in demand, not creating excess (no inflationpic.twitter.com/XUEger5cln
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