RUSH: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is implementing a pilot program that’s become a huge fad in liberal circles. The program will hand out $1,000 — $1,000 checks — to selected Chicago recipients every month, with no strings attached.
The handout is called “Universal Basic Income.” UBI. It’s supposed to “break the cycle of poverty.”
Now, this scam — uh, sorry, social welfare experiment — has been tried before. In January 2017, Finland adopted a UBI program. But after two years of not “breaking the cycle of poverty,” it was shut down. Finland admitted that it failed.
And that’s what Chicago’s harebrained UBI plan is destined to do. It’ll also fail, because socialism never works.
No matter what you call it, no matter how you disguise it, no matter how you try it, it blows up on you!
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