Payments to Alaskans are Not a UBI
Instead, we should look to stabilize our national economy with a Federal Jobs Guarantee instead of using a program unique to just one state.
Instead, we should look to stabilize our national economy with a Federal Jobs Guarantee instead of using a program unique to just one state.
“Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will eat for a lifetime.”
This simplistic, incorrect, and devastatingly neoliberal plan of instituting a Universal Basic Income will be the final blow against the public purpose and General Welfare Clause as well as an effective coup for the rightwing to establish cash payment as opposed to the services millions desperately need.