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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 25 2017, @08:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the OBIPP? dept.

The Liberal premier of Ontario announced details of the Ontario Basic Income Pilot. The provincial government issued a press release saying

Three regions will take part in the study. Pilots will start in late spring in Hamilton, including Brantford and Brant County; and in Thunder Bay and the surrounding area. The third pilot will start by this fall [autumn] in Lindsay.

The Basic Income model Ontario has developed will ensure that eligible participants receive:

        Up to $16,989 per year for a single person, less 50 per cent of any earned income
        Up to $24,027 per year for a couple, less 50 per cent of any earned income
        Up to an additional $6,000 per year for a person with a disability.

[...] The three test regions will host 4,000 participants eligible to receive a basic income payment, between the ages of 18 to 64. By late spring, people in these areas will begin receiving information about the pilot and how to participate. The province is partnering with these communities and other experts to make sure that the Ontario Basic Income Pilot is fair, effective, and scientifically valid.

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related story:
Ontario is Starting a Universal Basic Income Pilot


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Tuesday April 25 2017, @09:25PM (1 child)

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday April 25 2017, @09:25PM (#499596)

    WHY????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That redistribution is fucking stupid and inefficient, not to mention fucking offensive.

    So I work each day, of which most of my daily production is stolen by those above. I'm wholly dependent upon the state not just for healthcare, but now the ability to eat, clothe, and find shelter. Now I'm a lowly slave-wager that clearly deserves his fate because I never learned enough, when to the right Ivy-League schools to learn how to steal from workers. The poor and lower end of the Middle Class are always vilified in a frenzy of victim blaming.

    Then the government comes in with Basic Income, which is basically income from them re-stealing it from rich fuckers and mega corps. Either that, or taxes which contain the little trickle of taxes I pay that move upwards. Now I need government help to survive.

    Seriously, fuck that shit.

    Just pay me a LIVING WAGE. Then I don't need to have wealth redistributed it, because it never left my wallet to begin with. Then it is ME paying for my health care, ME paying for my food, ME paying for my shelter.

    BI is a step in the wrong direction. It will institutionalize wealth redistribution without understanding in its own context. In other words, we put some duct tape on it and ignore the fact that the engine itself, as well as the roads, wheels, etc. are systemically flawed.

    Fuck BI. Let's just raise up, gut the rich, and get our LIVING WAGES back. Then I can pay for stuff and have the dignity that I'm actually able to take care of myself. BI tells me that I could never live off my own production. That's fucking false.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday April 25 2017, @11:29PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday April 25 2017, @11:29PM (#499682) Journal

    Living wage or a job. Pick one.

    Automation will make universal basic income necessary. Or if not basic income, maybe some sort of extreme subsidy for employers to hire anybody.

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