True in the U.S. Except, of course, in Alaska. Somehow in Alaska, very red state Alaska, home to Sarah Palin, every state resident gets a dividend from the oil revenue. Not that I approve of the reason why considering no one should be making revenue by fossil fuels, but somehow Republicans are fine with that exception. I wish they were pressed on it occasionally.
38To be fair, government bailouts are not just free money the government gives large corporations with no attached expectations. When the government bailed out GM, for example, the treasury gave GM $52 billion. $6.7 billion was considered a loan (with interest) which GM has since paid back. The rest was an investment resulting in a 32% ownership of GM by the US Treasury.
26With obesity being a big problem, we could always frame UBI as being for individuals too big to fail as well.
23I'm ignorant, and maybe I shouldn't ask this in a meme community, but wouldn't a UBI become the new $0?
Like all the corporations now know we get x-amount more so now prices are adjusted to take a portion of that across all sectors, and now I'm back to not being about to afford the same things as before? Idk I don't have an econ degree.
19Yeah there's that, then there's this:
13Getting money from the government is like the one thing that's classy to do if rich, but considered tacky if poor.
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2If governments had paid to cover mortgages instead of just hand outs to major corporations the GFC would not have been so bad.
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