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points by catlikesshrimp 1 day ago | 0 comments

I don't know what this has to do with the topic, but buying votes is more transparent now. They offered $5,000 for every adult if they win.

[–] AngryData 1 day ago

If it truly went to everybody to me it is just government paying dividends to the people. Which I think is far preferable and useful compared to corporate bailouts and tax cuts and most other allocations. We gave money to people during covid and it wasn't catastrophic.

[–] jmspamerton 1 day ago

How is that different than democrat socialists offering free healthcare and universal income?

[–] mancerayder 1 day ago

Free healthcare, I think you mean single payer healthcare or a public option for healthcare, exists in most countries in the world. How is it different? How about how is it the same?

[–] catlikesshrimp 1 day ago

Healthcare is a comprehensive quality of life improvement that indivuduals can't waste in fast fashion and such, which reduces the wealth gap, which will remain after election campaign, which is a cornerstone of societies of many developed countries.

[–] sillyfluke 12 hours ago

It's different because democrat socialists would presumably continue to vote and argue for those policies even if they lose. 5 grand handouts, on the other hand, are not some deep rooted policy out of the Republican playbook.

[–] ok_dad 1 day ago

If you can’t tell the difference you’re stupid or you support trump style fascism.

One is a bribe the other is a health insurance program.

I can’t speak to UBI but it’s not a common platform anyways.