Anything we get for free is socialism?
Every resident of Alaska every year gets a dividend check. Is that socialism? Would you refuse to cash it every year as a handout?
Is Monopoly a game about socialism?
I also think you take no issue with all the tax subsidies you enjoy. That's free money.
Also, basic income isn't free money. Everyone pays into it.
Additionally, what is your answer to the automation of human labor? You think a consumption tax is going to solve that one? You think tax cuts are going to save the economy from a lack of demand? Millions of people unemployed by intelligent software like self-driving cars and trucks are going to be hurt by receiving enough money to live each month above the poverty level instead of going homeless and hungry? Or do you think millions of truck drivers are all going to go back to school to become software engineers for Facebook and Google?
I provided you a link to read. I don't think you read it. I don't think you even read this post. I think you read the title. Try learning something new and challenging what you think you know instead of just assuming you know enough to comment on stuff you haven't even read.
Every resident of Alaska every year gets a dividend check. Is that socialism? Would you refuse to cash it every year as a handout?
Yes its socialism, the people who pay into it created it..do you think it grew from a tree? It should be kept by the people who produced it and it was not the government. They produce NOTHING..So who should pay for the people who don't have a job due to intelligent softwares? Someone who created something? Money should be stolen from hard working individuals? NO. Go and learn about taxes and what should be done about it. Your links and thinking are INSANE AND archaic! Read each link and educate yourself: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/?s=taxes