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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Alaska currently pays its residents $1000 to $2000 per person. They've been doing this for a while.

Some places in NoVa are looking at doing the same thing - Arlington and Alexandria.  DC also does this.  So for those who say they will move to NoVa, good luck.

https://www.npr.org/local/305/2021/10/26/1049266089/montgomery-county-to-weigh-sending-800-a-month-to-low-income-families-for-two-years

The folks who are going to be in the pilot will be vetted by the county. You can't sign up for it. The county will hand select the people.

While I'm not a fan of UBI, at least it's not a free for all.

Whether the money comes from special appropriation budget or federal money (as NoVa is doing), it ends up in the same pot that gets doled out however the county sees fit.

How did the Stockton experiment go?[/quote]

Alaska basically has a sovereign wealth fund though, numb nuts.  That's not even remotely a fair comparison. The leftists in Takoma Park are utterly too stupid to run finances correctly to ever get something like a sovereign wealth fund up and running..lol, Alaska gets all of that money too from oil and greenhouse gas producing commodities, which would be a big no no for the idiots in Takoma Park. [/quote]
  At the end of the day, oil revenue for the state is part of their budget. And AK has one of the highest sales tax rates in the country.  Income tax is lower because they have oil revenue and high sales tax, but regardless, it's expensive to live in AK.  And there are a lot of poor people there.

I hear WV is trying to attract people to live there by giving out money.   I assume that's taxpayer money that a lot of poor people in WV could use, too.[/quote]

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