The Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban Basic Income Experiments in the U.S.
The Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban Basic Income Experiments in the U.S.
The Foundation for Government Accountability - a Florida-based lobbying group backed by the richest 1% - is working to get basic income experiments banned by state legislators across the U.S. As a well-known quote often wrongly attributed to Mahatma Ghandi says, “First they ignore you, then they ...
The Foundation for Government Accountability was founded in Florida in 2011 by Tarren Bragdon after cutting his chops in Maine at the Maine Heritage Policy Center and then as adviser to Maine's governor, LePage. It was in Maine where Bragdon and a cohort of fellow young conservatives gained a reputation for outrageous anti-welfare policies.
“I remember them as a pack of inexperienced, activist right-wingers that went crazy on welfare reform,” said Cynthia Dill, a former state senator to the Washington Post in 2018. “It galled me that they had no expertise whatsoever in health and human services but were appointed to places of power by the LePage administration.”
Experiments are always theater anyway. There's no point in experimenting, the change only happens when it's "universal". It's in the fucking name. Just do it.
A common argument made against UBI is some form of "they're poor so they don't know how to handle money; if you give them money they'll just spend it irresponsibly." At the very least, UBI experiments have shown that the recipients use the money responsibly.
theatre yes but they’ll never show anything other than that we should do UBI so let them have their theatre if it leads to a good outcome
its funny to as its a libertarian concept to simply social assitance. Well old school real libertarian not the fud the party with the name throws around now.