The new emergency benefit (CRB) of $400 a week will replace the CERB at the end of this month and will cost $22 billion over the next year. However, the Liberals have not ruled out the change being made permanent – effectively creating a guaranteed basic income.
Critics point out that in many ways CRB is much more generous than CERB, which cuts off benefits after recipients earn $1,000 in income. Under CRB, recipients don’t see their benefit impacted until they earn $38,000 a year and don’t see it clawed back entirely until they earn $58,800. A worker claiming CRB and working part-time is likely to earn more than a minimum wage earner working full-time. As the recovery takes hold, the concern among some economists is that a permanent CRB would be a disincentive to returning to the work-force, resulting in labour shortages.
So make $38,000 a year doing some part time shit, bring in another $19,200 in UBI. Not bad.
Here I am, working long hours in the office as a junior engineer for just above the cut off point. I could go back to being a lazy landscaper and be in the same financial position. This is fucking retarded.
Probably a smart move. Where I live the crackhead epidemic will explode with the amount of drugs they can afford considering their food and housing is supplied for free. I know tons of their marginally functioning friends will stop working. Find a girl that want the quiet life and get some rural property on everyone elses dime. Here I am working two jobs like a sucker.
I bet a lot of people are going to think that. I sell my house in the urban hell hole of the Metro Vancouver and I can be mortgage free and UBI will pay my bills. My medical care is free, too. Fishing, hunting, maybe raise some chickens, and no pressure to get ahead or improve on my lot. Thank you Justin! There's no way this can't work out for me, right? Well, I mean, unless people like you stop being suckers.
Benefit is 400 a week. My salary is pretty much the Canadian average, I put 500 into the system twice a month in taxes. It will require 1.6 workers paying into the system for every leach. I suspect we are below that ratio, and it doesn’t account for all the other government spending there is.
The problem with any free money is that it can end as quick as it began. In the 80’s, we got $10/month/kid for Family Allowance (taxable), in 10 years, we were getting $2/month.
I dont think anyone here disputes it.
So make $38,000 a year doing some part time shit, bring in another $19,200 in UBI. Not bad.
Here I am, working long hours in the office as a junior engineer for just above the cut off point. I could go back to being a lazy landscaper and be in the same financial position. This is fucking retarded.
x2 if you have a "life partner"...
Probably a smart move. Where I live the crackhead epidemic will explode with the amount of drugs they can afford considering their food and housing is supplied for free. I know tons of their marginally functioning friends will stop working. Find a girl that want the quiet life and get some rural property on everyone elses dime. Here I am working two jobs like a sucker.
I bet a lot of people are going to think that. I sell my house in the urban hell hole of the Metro Vancouver and I can be mortgage free and UBI will pay my bills. My medical care is free, too. Fishing, hunting, maybe raise some chickens, and no pressure to get ahead or improve on my lot. Thank you Justin! There's no way this can't work out for me, right? Well, I mean, unless people like you stop being suckers.
Zimbabwe incoming.
I think I'm going to be sick.
...God help us all.
Benefit is 400 a week. My salary is pretty much the Canadian average, I put 500 into the system twice a month in taxes. It will require 1.6 workers paying into the system for every leach. I suspect we are below that ratio, and it doesn’t account for all the other government spending there is.
The problem with any free money is that it can end as quick as it began. In the 80’s, we got $10/month/kid for Family Allowance (taxable), in 10 years, we were getting $2/month.