John Key = Richard Nixon. Ummmm. Love your sense of humour
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UBI - Finland is experimenting and seems it will be voluntary. So only those who will benefit will sign up. Still it should provide useful information, particularly about impact on working or not-working, whether targeted help is still needed by some and how tax will be managed.
In the UK the idea is also being kicked around and seems that adults would get a set amount and each child would also get a set amount. But housing would need to be dealt with separately.
Housing would also be an issue here.
Once parallel systems are needed for say - housing, disability, different locations, emergency help, tax system changes ..... - then it's starting to look less like a universal income and more like what NZ has now except that some get $$ they don't need.
Still, worth having a conversation about it.
Nixon was done for (a) knowing about the break in at Watergate where 2 burglars tried to filch material from the Democratic Party offices at Watergate (b) destroying evidence (mostly his own Nixon tapes).
Any resemblance to John Key is hyperbolic and very far fetched. Its also putting the cart before the horse since it was actually Nicky Hager who at the least, received stolen property and blessed hacking.
It was totally disbelieved at the last election and in all the public opinion polls since. The trouble with putting up such nonsense stories, crying Wolf! is that you immensely deflate your credibility whenever anything else comes up. Hence the poll results, and may I add, the next election results...
You need to find a believable issue(s). Shades of Belge and EZ.
Well it was the police & GCSB that illegally tried to 'gather' evidence against Hager & Dotcom, so the bow isn't that far stretched. Both had become political and challenged the current government.
Well it must be time for another leadership change. Mother Theresa might give them a chance.