We don’t necessarily need higher taxes, we could probably put an income cap on SS benefits, remove the cap on SS taxes, and fund it with the excess.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
robot tax
Needs to stop with stupid gimmicks from Bernie. Higher personal, corporate, and investment taxes to fund UBI. Welcome robots/automation to free us from any useless work instead of looking at cannibal solutions to “pick me” for the one job there is.
Robot taxes are wrongheaded, because automation is hard to define. Taxing pipes and wires will make full employment getting all your energy and water with buckets from the river and chopping down all the trees. Even if we strained to define narrow robots/automation categories, it would encourage more foreign production, and no local robot production economy. Why would those selling Yachts to the robot owners not be taxed?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
An extremely weird thing GOP did, but explained as Trump diaper lickers, is make SS tax free, even though they’ve been pressuring for SS diminishment reform in last 8 years. A very simple alternative that could have been done is taxes on SS income could flow back into SS fund to strengthen it.
Overall, increased taxes on investment income alone can pay for UBI.
IronBird@lemmy.world 1 day ago
we dont even have universal healthcare or functional public transit, UBI is a pipedream…
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
or fast rail way, even in places that are funded better. public transports is lacking in many areas , for example it doesnt go areas outside of cities where most tech jobs/biotech campuses are without a car.
SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
In fact, UBI is complete nonsense because you won’t be able to save for anything since your account will be reset every time, and you will again receive about 2000 in currency, which will all go to pay for basic needs and in the end you will become like a pet.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
UBI is an easy winning election platform. The most promising aspect of UBI is that it is power redistribution. Wealth doesn’t get redistributed, and rich get richer even with higher taxes.
A UBI election platform has to be an anti-zionazi corruption platform. Everyone who pledges loyalty to Israel with a policy influence position is automatically a traitor, and will wait for their treason trial in military prison, citizenship removed, and their zionazi donors wealth must be zeroed out (confiscated by state). Defense and oil industries must be nationalized for their warmongering and zionazi influence. Zionazi media must be nationalized. AIPAC lobbyists and donors are traitors, not just foreign agents. ADL is a hate group.
Because of extreme political corruption. Money in politics and media tells you to never change that. US pays 5% of GDP more than Canada on healthcare, and a significant quality of life improvement for Americans comes from spending less overall, including not being subject to stress and crime that causes healthcare. Health lobbies, and all other oligarchies, allying with Zionazi donor wishes is an easier path for corruption than excluding zionazi influence to their own party. Andrew Yang’s 2016 book tour presidential run (focused on UBI/freedom dividends) started with including Universal healthcare, but like DNC, accepted fundraising to lose all principles. His attempt to form a centrist party/coalition is effectively a zionazi only political coalition.
We cannot have nice things because Israel supremacy and war has to be purpose of US government. Your misery makes you ignore the pure evil of US, because bandaids on your misery is all that gets politically debated. You can’t think of American or human sustainability if collapse is imminent. UBI is the complete extermination of the establishment corruption. UBI makes every program have a cash dividend alternative that makes it virtually impossible for corrupt filth to support wasteful programs.
On AI topic, “national security to beat China” = make Skynet to support Israel media/information control to diminish and oppress us all for oligarchy. The alternative to freedom dividends/UBI is genocide of the slave class that has resistance negatives, and no longer any useful slavery positives, to Israel/oligarchy.
IronBird@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
and again…how do you imagine your getting to that point in a country that can’t even agree people deserve access to healthcare at all, let alone affordable/quality healthcare…
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
I very specifically provided complete necessary political messaging. UBI does not provide supremacist power to election winner. It provides freedom and prosperity to people. Since money = speech has already been enshrined, money is terrorist treasonous oppression when used for Zionist first warmongering rule over the country. You must disqualify from politics those who get media/donor support, and pledge loyalty, for their terrorist treasonous oppression of Americans.
The biggest issue that influences Trump supporters that I know is total obsession with trans normalization/DEI stories. An olympic female boxer is hated because she is not feminine looking enough. 2nd is any crime or pet eating accusation of immigrants. Covid policies, 3rd. Biden intentionally forcing egg prices higher is just BS they go along with because the same sources that feed their hate on those top 3 issues, pile on for GOP support.
That GOP politicians gaslight support for those issues in order to give oligarchs tax cuts funded by cuts on healthcare is not “people disagree on healthcare is good”, it’s just politicians ignoring what people want. The BS that reimbursing states for medicaid expenses they pay hospitals is giving them money that can be spent on anything, including immigrant protections, is just complete BS, that needs disinformation from sources that feed their 3 priority hate points, which MAGA trusts, to disinform them on oligarchy protections.
The Zionazi/oligarch rulership gaslighting on every other issue can be exterminated. Only through UBI. An election platform that invalidates current establishment power funding.