{"id":56892,"date":"2024-10-14T09:03:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T13:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56892"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:03:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T13:03:20","slug":"money-from-the-government-isnt-really-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56892","title":{"rendered":"Money From The Government Isn’t Really Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, Hot Air<\/a> posted an article about the cost of ‘free money.’ There really isn’t a free lunch.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Some politicians and activists are eager to give you “free” money.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

They call it universal basic income (UBI) — cash for everyone, no strings attached.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comedian Dave Chappelle thinks UBI would “save my community almost instantly.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

In my new video, UBI activist Conrad Shaw agrees, “You would effectively get rid of extreme poverty immediately.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

He says a UBI will help people “start businesses, fix their homes or invest in sustainable gardens.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, “sustainable gardens” might be nice, but someone still has to make stuff. And that requires work — often difficult work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I was young, If I hadn’t needed to work to support myself, I wouldn’t have pushed so hard to overcome my fears, my stuttering and my reluctance to speak publicly. I wouldn’t have become successful. I might have stayed in bed most of the day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Shaw disagrees. “I don’t believe you,” he says. “Nobody actually wants that … people find their passions not simply because they need to make money.<\/strong>“<\/p>\n

The article cites the results of an experiment where people were given a UBI:<\/p>\n

It turns out that Sam Altman, the guy behind ChatGPT, helped create such a test. His big study gave 1,000 low-income people $1,000 per month for three years — no strings attached. What happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not the great things that were promised. After three years of getting $1,000\/month, UBI recipients were actually a little deeper in debt than before.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Work isn’t always fun, but there is pride in doing a job well. Accepting free money and not having to work does not encourage one to be creative–it encourages one to be lazy and entitled.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

“If we were to get rid of unemployment insurance, food stamps, welfare and all the other insane policies we have, and just have a moderate universal basic income,” says Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron, “I think it would be a huge improvement.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

But that will never happen. Anytime anyone tries to cut any<\/em> government program, people freak out. Imagine trying to cut all<\/em> welfare.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The chances politically that will happen are probably zero,” says Miron.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Progressives want to add UBI to already existing programs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Adding more programs is insane!” says Miron. “It will make the entire country melt down. The people who will bear the brunt of that will be people who are poor. The rich will move to other countries … hide their assets. We will have a debt crisis like nobody’s ever seen before.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0We already<\/em> have a debt crisis like nobody’s seen before!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Let’s not make it worse with a UBI.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, Hot Air posted an article about the cost of ‘free money.’ There really isn’t a free lunch. The article reports: Some politicians and activists are eager to give you “free” money.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 They call it universal … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1583,11643],"class_list":["post-56892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hot-air","tag-universal-basic-income"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56900,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56892\/revisions\/56900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}