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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(Score: 4, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday April 25 2017, @10:34PM (5 children)
You would shoot Oliver Twist?
Speaking of caricatures, do you realize "a mugger" is one? You're talking like "bad" people are spawn in an FPS game, one around every corner. Mugging is not the sort of activity anyone can make a long, successful, and lucrative career out of. Do you think there's any place today in the US where the likes of Oliver Twist and the pickpocket crime boss Fagin can long thrive? In the real world, petty criminals are much, much rarer. They're people, with complicated histories. Sometimes, desperate people commit petty crimes because they want to be arrested, they want some shelter and a jail cell is the best option available. Sometimes, the criminal is a mental patient who didn't take their meds that day, maybe they ran out, maybe they were confiscated by some pigs looking to score points in the War on Drugs during a stop and frisk. Sometimes they're troubled teens. And sometimes, like Oliver Twist, they're being bullied and threatened into taking the risk of being caught, so someone else can profit from the crime. As for criminal organizations, they aren't much interested in chicken feed that has to be taken by force. The bosses are not idiots, they're rational. They'd much rather deal drugs or something else easy than get into shootouts they might not survive.
The last thing we need is for some vigilante jackass to pull out a deadly weapon and start mowing down people who he thinks committed a petty crime.
(Score: 2, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 25 2017, @10:38PM (4 children)
No, I would drag his ass by the ear to the police though.
And people pulling out deadly weapons to prevent crimes upon themselves is absolutely something we need more of in this nation. It will make crime decidedly less attractive of a career.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @10:53PM (3 children)
Trolling is a lucrative career, let me tell you. It's great that there aren't any living wage jobs left and the market for part time work is saturated also. It gives us professional trolls so much time to devote to our craft of trolling. And did I mention lucrative? Yes indeed I got paid $0.000 to post this comment. I can take that money to the invisible bank where I keep my imaginary fortune. Soon I'll have enough fantasy money stashed away to buy my own private island on the sea of make believe.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 25 2017, @11:07PM (2 children)
I'm writing the Troll Board. You need a 50% pay cut for low quality work you're turning out.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @11:21PM (1 child)
BuahahahaHaha cut all you want! I have a guaranteed basic trolling income of $0.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 25 2017, @11:52PM
Is it really basic income if you're working for it? Cut another 10% for logic-fail but add another 15% for making me laugh.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.