Burger-flipping robot to replace thousands of $15 per hour workers in liberal states

[Slartibartfast]

21.3% of Americans are on mean-tested public assistance programs. Is there any wonder why they support UBI -- they already are on-board with the Democratic mindset of having others work to give them stuff.

You mean including Walmart Employees?

Report: Walmart Workers Cost Taxpayers $6.2 Billion In Public Assistance
https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareo...-2-billion-in-public-assistance/#2ecf524f720b

I know this is hopeless, attacking the poor is such a habit for some.

Often the poor are quite low-IQ and in poor health.

 

[Tony Stark]

21.3% of Americans are on mean-tested public assistance programs. Is there any wonder why they support UBI -- they already are on-board with the Democratic mindset of having others work to give them stuff.

Many of those people work.Their bosses should be paying them a fair wage or the government should make business owners reimburse the government for their employees government assistance with interest and penalties.

 

[Tony Stark]

The margins for owners in most restaurants and franchises are very slim. They are not walking off with big profits.

Many are,and of course there are the monsters like walmart etc that cost the tax payer billions while The Walton family own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans.

 

[gwb-trading]

Many are,and of course there are the monsters like walmart etc that cost the tax payer billions while The Walton family own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans.

You have a point.

 

[maximumpossiblesuffering]

More people voting for and on welfare

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/roughly-half-of-americans-now-support-universal-basic-income.html


More Americans now support a universal basic income

• Forty-eight percent of Americans support a universal basic income.
• Longtime advocates say we're closer than ever to adopting the program.

Annie Nova
Published 3:35 PM ET Mon, 26 Feb 2018 Updated 12:44 PM ET Wed, 28 Feb 2018



Political philosopher and economist Karl Widerquist remembers a poll from 10 years ago that showed just 12 percent of Americans approved of a universal basic income.

That's changed — and quickly. Today, 48 percent of Americans support it, according to a new Northeastern University/Gallup survey of more than 3,000 U.S. adults.

The survey looked at universal basic income as a solution for Americans who have lost jobs to automation.

Lenin would be honored. Universal Basic Income is Communism becoming more entenched into the United States. ACA is bad enough.

By the time the U.S. goes full Communist, I wonder if China and Russia will have gone full Capitalist by then? After all, Russia and China have seen the benefits of Capitalism and have been slowly moving in that direction for a while.

After years of living a comfortable life, people forget the hard work, sacrifice, and even personal risk of their predecessers. Past generations of this country did this to make a better place for their families in a world that did not reward work or allow the freedoms we now enjoy.

Comfortable people take their relative prosperity and freedom for granted.

Even many of the poorest in the U.S. have a much higher standard of living when compared to typical citizens in third world countries. We have clean water, food available for the asking, and homeless shelters managed by churches, other charity organizations, and local governments. We have free education and free use of computers and the internet at schools and public libraries. The tools are there for someone to improve their life, regardless of their starting position.

So there is an entity that wants to entrench 50% of the U.S. population into not having to work?

How are the people who do actual work going to feel about this? How high is their morale going to be?

Should we continue on the course the U.S. seems to be on, we will soon be permanently irrelevent as a nation. Citizen incentives will be gone and their freedoms will soon be rendered moot.

 

[wildchild]

Pay no federal income taxes.

The poor pay mostly in consumption taxes which are large as a proportion of income.

Do you mean to tell me that the guy who is covered in tattoos and piercings and has pants hanging around his knees, who cant find a job by the way, is paying too much of a consumption tax?

 

[DTB2]

The Waltons must have won the lottery, eh?
They didn't get there with hard work, risk taking and great ideas now did they?

 

[maximumpossiblesuffering]

You mean including Walmart Employees?

Report: Walmart Workers Cost Taxpayers $6.2 Billion In Public Assistance
https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareo...-2-billion-in-public-assistance/#2ecf524f720b

I know this is hopeless, attacking the poor is such a habit for some.

Often the poor are quite low-IQ and in poor health.

When the U.S. decides to get serious about our epic drug problem, I mean really serious, unlike during Reagan/Bush where only certain drug dealers were reined in, will we see progress in the lives of the poor.

Substance abuse causes low IQs, poor decisions, poor health, depression, and costs money the poor can ill afford to spend.

Some of the Democrats want more funding for the poor. This will be an additional boon for the drug dealers. I wonder if some of the illegal drug interests have their own people in Washington? These same Democrats have shown do not care about the inner cities they are supposed to govern as shown by the deteriorating conditions over time.

There are plenty of social programs that allow the poor to improve their situation if they want to.

If we are to continue to have public assistance, it should not be in cash or cash equivelents. Welfare should be represented by government owned and managed housing. Instead of foodstamps, actual food should be given out. Taxpayer funded prescriptions should be reduced as well.

We must stop funding the inner-city drug economy by the current way we provide public assistance. We now have the tools in place to make a huge impact on the illegal drug trade. We should use these tools. Then, and only then will the poor truly be on their way towards a better life.