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More Americans now support a universal basic income
• https://www.cnbc.com, Annie NovaThat'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.
"It represents an enormous increase in support," said Widerquist, an associate professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and an advocate for a universal basic income. "It's really promising."
Proposals for universal basic income programs vary, but the most common one is a system in which the federal government sends out regular checks to everyone, regardless of their earnings or employment.
Pilots of such programs are underway in Finland and Canada. In rural Kenya, a basic income is managed by nonprofit GiveDirectly. India — with a population of more than 1.3 billion residents — is consideringestablishing a universal basic income.
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1 Comments in Response to More Americans now support a universal basic income
Actually, this form of socialism might be a good thing. If enough people want it, we might get it. Anybody who doesn't want to pay taxes to this socialism, can do it using common law and a court of record. A universal basic income means that true libertarians, who would rather work their own business, without supporting some form of socialism, will have to work extremely hard to stay afloat. Then, after socialism fails, these libertarians will be the only ones who will know how to run a business in hard times. They will be king. Everybody else will have to buy from them.