Robots are already taking jobs.

In order to have a strong democracy, one of the people, you must also have a strong middle class that are small business owners.

What you are suggesting is to institutionalize being poor, to tax others in order to pay for a basic income. Weakening democracy and really moving towards something more akin to communism, not socialism. Where everyone is paid by the state (government) and then becomes locked into their position with no opportunity for upward mobility.

I get it, when you have nothing to loose because you have nothing, anything is better than nothing. Basic income for a lot of people would be better than their current situation. However, instead of taking tax dollars and paying for basic income, if you instead provide that same money for innovation, for research and development, for small business loans, for education you then not only provide people with the opportunity to better their lives, for upward mobility, but you at the same time decrease the influence of large corporations, increase the voice of "we the people" and provide more jobs, more tax dollars that can go right back into the system to create more opportunity.

Basic income provides none of these things, not only that, but basic income would just create the very same situation that public assistance has created. We need to elevate people to middle class, not destroy the middle class and make everyone the same, to live in poverty.

Not only that, but imagine if people are on basic income how much more powerful the lobbying power of large corporations. The money they would donate to the campaigns of politicians who would benefit those large corporations instead of "we the people". What incentive would a politician have to do the work required to benefit "we the people" if all their campaign funds were coming from corporations. However, if you have a strong middle class, more small business owners who could afford to provide those same campaign funds and even outperformed what large corporations could donate, who do you think politicians would pay more attention to?

When people just argue their party line, and don't think about these things intelligently, they also tend to support those things that might cause more harm than good. I for one am not ready to hand over all power over "we the people" to corporations, nor government. I don't believe that basic income is the answer, I believe it weakens us, makes us subservient or rather slaves to a system that only seems to benefit large corporations. It makes the problems we face worse, not better. It only serves the purpose and intent of people like George Soros and others who seek to control us by providing us with only that which allows us to survive, but not prosper. Do we not have the right to become more than we are? Isn't that what our founding fathers intended for us?

I love robots so I don't care 👍