Sweden, Norway and Denmark are all protestant and have no problems with this.
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Lutheran vs Calvinist right?
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FDR managed to sell it with the Social Security Act.
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Took a lotta Catholics and poor European immigrants who came over a generation earlier. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal_coalition …
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@Noahpinion@AlecMacGillis@washingtonpost No Protestant ethic - Randian asshollery. DE, Nordics, Swiss have Protestant ethic -
this seems like an interesting paper on the subject. Lutheranism, Calvinism and Catholicism & poverty policy. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/faculty/mead/V53.0395/Kahl.pdf …
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I was just thinking about a girl I talked to who needed $1000 in gas, so went to a payday lender figuring she could declare bankruptcy later
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She'd thought it all through. Seen people who come thru bankruptcy. Knows how long it takes to get credit back & figures she's young enough.
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Good thing about UBI is that, like science, it's true whether or not you believe in it.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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That's why you pitch it as a universal refundable tax credit. Exact same substantive effect.
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Shush. It's totally different. Much more virtuous and stuff.
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