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It was a one time payment of an extra $1,200.00 and the dividend formula resulted in a higher than usual base payment. It would have been a lot more the last couple years but the governor keeps obstructing the higher pay outs.
As for whether or not Palin is or was a true scotsman, doesn't matter to me. I don't carry GOP water.
You were the one that injected whether or not she is a real conservative into the conversation. Either way. Alaska is not a cheap place to live unless you are an off-grid hunting, gathering granola eater. Their gas prices are running about 90 cents to a dollar higher than mine per gallon So whatever their government giveth back, mine never tooketh away.
Hello Kacper,
Did you know that some Alaskans are so poor that their only income is the Permanent Fund Dividend, PFD?
Some people live in such remote areas that money is not their biggest challenge in survival.
For them, the PFD IS their only income, it is quite basic, and it is what they live on.
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OK, I grant you that literal point.
But seriously, the only questions are minimal to establish that the recipient is an Alaskan and has lived in the State for a year, which will ensure they are there for a winter. If they can stay through that, that's enough for 99.99% of recipients.
This money is handed out from the State to almost everybody for doing nothing.
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Only 6 out of 7 Alaskans get checks, and their entire state population is smaller than my Congressional District's, so it isn't 99.9%. The requirements are more than you continue to represent and you still cannot answer the fundamental question----how will Alaska pay these checks without oil and gas revenue?
Anyway, Finland is ending their little 2,000 person trial (which by the way was designed to cut social spending) and America's experiment with it in the 1970's showed precisely why it is a bad idea---instead of supplementing people's existing income, most of the recipients just decided to work less and remain just as poor as they had been before. ( This is link that will trigger an automatic PDF download from the boston fed. Don't click if you don't want that: https://www.bostonfed.org/-/media/Do...30/conf30b.pdf )
What about we only start doing a universal basic income when the robots are actually taking away jobs? Unemployment is at 3.7% and there is a high demand for labor. The percent of the population employed is below the 90s and pre-recession levels, but it is recovering and still above the 80s and before (because of women entering working force), and we have a lot more older retired people.
We can start with requiring employers to pay workers time and a half pay for all work past 40 hours. This will encourage them to hire more workers. We can also work to fill the 5 million jobs skills gap and no longer need to import skilled labor from other countries.
Alaska's infrastructure is totally dependent upon the mineral and oil extraction industries. Without those, there would be no money for highway repairs, grid maintenance, state employees' salaries (including law enforcement), environmental quality enforcement, etc. There is no state income or sales tax to pay for these things.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska#Land_ownership
According to an October 1998 report by the United States Bureau of Land Management, approximately 65% of Alaska is owned and managed by the U.S. federal government as public lands, including a multitude of national forests, national parks, and national wildlife refuges.
it cracks me up that Rs love states where so much of the land is owned by the government
Hello Kacper,
My figure is not substantiated. It was a guess. What is the source for your '6 out of 7' figure?
The plan would be paid for by taxing the ultra-wealthy more. And that won't be a problem going forward, because the growth of their wealth continues to exceed their usage of it, and will ultimately be so great, they will be the only source of wealth in the economy. Eventually, they will pretty much own everything. That is where the whole thing is headed.
If what I believe will happen comes true, the Universal Basic Income will be the only thing that keeps the economy alive. And I really can't envision a scenario where that will not happen. We are on the verge of building machines that can learn to do things. Not just machines that replace human workers. Machines that can figure out what work needs to be done, and learn how to do it. They will service themselves, design and build themselves. There won't be much new work for humans generated by the advent of these ultimately versatile machines.
But there's a catch. These machines will be so expensive that only the super-rich and big corporations will be able to afford them. That means all of the profits they generate by displacing most workers will be going to the super-rich. That presents a huge problem for capitalist consumerism. Most would-be consumers will not have jobs or wealth with which to buy anything. These machines will work themselves out of a job by destroying the market they will initially be built to exploit. As they displace the expense of workers, they also eliminate customers for products.
The only way for money to have much active circulation then will be for government to redistribute it. Like it or not. Some people will still have work, but most will not. There simply won't be any way for the economy to function without a UBI.
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