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[Mark J]

A universal basic income would be what I'd go for, if I knew what I was on about. Quantative Easing for the little people, for a few months.

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

32 minutes ago, Mark J said:

A universal basic income would be what I'd go for, if I knew what I was on about. Quantative Easing for the little people, for a few months.

 

Rare, but I‘m inclined to agree with you Mark. That would seem to be an eminently sensible move. 
 

Time to strip out the decades of complexity, bureaucracy and political ideologies associated with the current social security system and re-invent the wheel. 
 

Id even go so far as to recognise and acknowledge the requirement for redistribution of extreme wealth in order to achieve it. 
 

Take a brave political leader to do it though. Not sure such a beast currently graces us with there presence.  Even if it were to be snuck in under cover of a global crisis - if ever, now is the opportunity. 

[Mark J]

6 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Rare, but I‘m inclined to agree with you Mark. That would seem to be an eminently sensible move. 
 

Time to strip out the decades of complexity, bureaucracy and political ideologies associated with the current social security system and re-invent the wheel. 
 

Id even go so far as to recognise and acknowledge the requirement for redistribution of extreme wealth in order to achieve it. 
 

Take a brave political leader to do it though. Not sure such a beast currently graces us with there presence.  Even if it were to be snuck in under cover of a global crisis - if ever, now is the opportunity. 

^Anarchist.?

 

Edited March 16, 2020 by Mark J

[openspaceman]

1 minute ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Id even go so far as to recognise and acknowledge the requirement for redistribution of extreme wealth in order to achieve it. 
 

I would agree that extreme wealth is one of our societies problems but would love to see how it could be addressed.

 

Governments have been slow to react to predatory american based companies like microsoft and amazon filching untaxable income because we have been sold the idea of free trade by America, the African countries are being devastated by the american controlled IMF forcing them to drop any protection of their nascent industries Yet all along US has discreetly managed to protect its own companies from foreign competition under the guise of national security. They even managed to foist their toxic debt onto our finance sector who were gagging for free trade to have access to their banking, at the expense of much of our wood industries as tariffs on imports were dropped.

 

This has led to the US economy having a much higher  differential between rich and poor than europe.

 

And therein lies another topic, Average incomes in US...

[Mark J]

It'd be canny funny if Rees Mogg was in charge. Where did he go?

 

 

[trigger_andy]

8 hours ago, Mark J said:

A universal basic income would be what I'd go for, if I knew what I was on about. Quantative Easing for the little people, for a few months.

 

I hope you're sitting down as I actually agree with you.  

[Lowestoft Firewood]

Someone shared this which may be of some help? 

[trigger_andy]

7 hours ago, Mark J said:

It'd be canny funny if Rees Mogg was in charge. Where did he go?

 

 

Sidelined due to his ill thought out comment regarding Grenfell. 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

7 hours ago, Mark J said:

^Anarchist.?

 

Stop it now.....  That’s 2 of 2!

 

There are certain elements of anarchy which hold appeal. 
 

What always makes me laugh is when the great unwashed, dreadlocked, socialist worker reading career protestor type call for anarchy without realising they’d be the most vulnerable if they got what they called for. 
 

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

7 hours ago, Mark J said:

It'd be canny funny if Rees Mogg was in charge. Where did he go?

 

 

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