The idea was proposed by two Democrats, so you know it has zero chance in this administration. We couldn’t even get our student loans forgiven.

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    Someone saying we are selecting 20,000 people with very low income to be a part of our basic income test run. The idea is to make sure they can afford to live. Then being told you are one of those 10,000 that they picked to compare too.

    Id still be happy some people were being helped and would hope it helped future people but damn would that be a bummer. We found 5,000 of the 10 we chose not to help either wound up homeless and malnourished while all of them had less happy lives and opportunities, couldn’t afford to have as many kids and the suicide rates were much higher.