Faster horses said:
"guaranteed minimum income for everyone"...that's a scary thought.
Where did I get the idea you are a conservative? :wink: How about an INCENTIVE to work? That seems a much better method to me.
As a salesperson I get paid by commission only. That's a real incentive to get off your butt. Hustle or don't get paid. Not too many would go for that deal because they like the guarantee of what they are worth per hour. That's just how they have been taught. I'd never work in sales on anything but straight commission but some are scared to death of it.
Funny, you bring up the word beauracracy. I've been thinking the about beaurocrats and I never think about it without thinking how Lyndon Johnson was the one president that accelerated beauracracy to huge heights in Washington, D.C.
80% of every dollar that is collected in Canada and redistributed by the Federal government gets gobled up by the beaurocrats. Only 20% goes to the people. There has to be a more efficient way.
Im thinking who would want to live off a minimun income? That would be incentive to work?
Example in Alberta we have no provincial dept. With the last budjet surplus they just cut every Albertan (man, women and or child)a check for $400 regardless of their income.
Every new child regardless of their families income in Alberta recieves a $500 taxfree educational saveings grant that goes into their bank account. This is registered and can only be used for post secondary education.
In Alberta people who make roughly less than $34,000 a year do not even pay income tax. The ones that make more than this just pay a small flat tax.
I think half of the success of Alberta is the lack of beaurocrats. LOLs the other half is the lack of regulations.