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Old 08-27-2016, 05:56 PM  
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You don't understand sarcasm and cynicism in the English language I see -- that is exactly right. However, I was thinking of Stalinist collective farms and gulags more specifically -- how did that work out?

Some economic theories are unworkable in a free society. They may be able to do this in a small nation like Switzerland -- basic income guarantees. Switzerland is not the USA, France or China. Denmark is a very small country existing in a broad based EU economy.

A small state in the USA could tax and redistribute a basic income guarantee stipend perhaps but that would not work in more diverse and populated states. However, that would be challenged in the federal courts -- guaranteed.

On a federal level in the USA the idea of a basic income stipend by taxation and wealth redistribution is ludicrous. People do not have a constitutional ''explicit'' right to an income in the USA. In fact, this would take a constitutional amendment here Constitutional Amendment Process not going to happen here ...
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