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wolfy42 posted...

Honestly I don't know if UBI is a good idea yet, what I would like to see is something that balances the rediculous amount of rent most have to pay.

Basically it's UBI but in the form of rent relief and food stamps only (not directly cash).

And it's based on both the rent you pay (which needs to be reported) and the income you make.

You still qualify for UBI as long as your rent is over 30% of your income per month basically.

Meanwhile food stamps become universal for everyone at 50$ a week per person.

This would not be enough to make anyone happy/live comfortably, but it would keep everyone off the streets and fed, drastically reduce crime, but still give incentive for everyone to work if they can.

As time goes on and less jobs are available it could be expanded on.

That's something that a lot of federal minimum wage proponents ignore: Cost of living is very much not static across the country. Minimum wage in a region should reflect the cost of living in that region, and to that end I'd like to see an algorithm established that would define it accordingly instead of trying to set a flat number. Base it off of median rent (or possibly a lower value like the first quartile) within a half-hour walk of the workplace, include median car/gas costs if you want to expand that to a half-hour drive, and maybe you'd be getting somewhere. As it stands, $15/hour would do nothing in Silicon Valley, but it'd let you live like a king (and, by extension, bankrupt your employer) in many small towns, and that's just a silly, silly idea.

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