task0778
Diamond Member
You are absolutely correct that five hundred dollars is like nothing but this idea sets the stage for the question of whether or not the Pro-Life Community might just be willing to AGREE with and support the people who support an Unconditional but Taxable Basic Minimum Income Supplement?
The timing certainly is correct for there to be at least some level of agreement across partly lines both in Canada as well as in the USA, under our extreme set of circumstances.
If I understand your proposition correctly, you are saying that the pro-life people and the UBI people will agree to support each other's policies and both could get done. Well, I would never say never, but the pro-lifers are Far Right and the UBI folks are Far Left and so it's hard to see those guy agreeing to support each other. Do they trust each other? I doubt it. I can see the real possibility that whoever gets their policies First will renege on the other side's policies and so one of the two doesn't happen.
Digging a bit deeper, I do not see the Left supporting pro-life legislation without a lot of expensive concessions for child-care, education, housing, etc. If the Right accepts those concessions and on top of that supports UBI across the country then you are talking about an extremely large spending package and tax hikes. I can see the Left coming out of it as big winners if the Right agrees with all that.
