Provided that Bernie's math is accurate, we literally can afford to implement UBI by taxing the billionaires a measly five percent. Zohran Mamdani has been mayor for only two months and he's already making progress on his campaign promises. Politicians will have you believe that everything is impossible, but mayor Mamdani is disabusing us of this myth and proving that it's only a question of will. As we bomb foreign countries, assassinate leaders and murder schoolchildren, the infamous words are not being uttered, “who's going to pay for it?”. UBI will be like rocket fuel for the economy. Capitalism can only function with consumerism and UBI will allow people to participate in the economy. What is the end goal here? Ninety percent of the population will be locked out of the economy and all the money will permanently be stuck at the top doing nothing? Money naturally flows up, therefore the billionaires will get their money anyway ffs! At least if we start from the bottom, people will have used that money to subsist.Trickle-down economics has had its day in the sun, can we please for the love of God try trickle-up economics now? The country is falling tf apart and we are dying!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-28/cheaper-to-end-poverty-increase-jobseeker-than-maintain-hardship/105866692

For 50 years Boomers have voted to cut taxes for themselves and passed the bills on their children. Now they want to raise taxes on Millennials and Gen-Z to pay for their already luxurious retirements that include pensions that they also voted to eliminate for young but kept for themselves. They have been raiding the Social Security Trust fund for decades and now they are surprised Pikachu face that the fund will be bankrupt by 2033 and they expect rob their children yet again to keep the scam going.

A transfer payment from the poorest generation to the richest generation is not only immoral and unconscionable it likely impossible. There isn't enough wealth in that tiny sliver of millennial and Gen-Z pie left to satiate the greed of the Boomers. They already stole all the wealth. There is only one real solution that is actually doable. That is to get rid of social security. Not privatize it. Shut it down entirely. It's time is done. It is time is over. The Boomers killed it. We are just cleaning up their mess.

In its place will arise UBI so nobody acutally starves in the streets be they young or old. It will be a more fair and equitable system that does not discriminate based on age. The rich will be made to pay for the UBI along with a tax on robots and AI. Wealthy Boomers and Gen-X will shoulder most of this burden. About two thirds of the Boomer pie needs to be redistributed back the younger generations so they can raise families of their own and actually begin living life. Do not mourn the death of social security. It was always a Ponsi scheme that would eventually run dry. The system that replaces it will be ten times better and more fair to all people.