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Then you have the issue of paying for it! What would you have to pay in order to give someone a basic standard of living in SF? $24K might fly for a young single person, but what about the single mom with four kids? That would be more like $50K.

So you just pay every person in the US more than the average income?

pessimizer on Oct 11, 2013 [–]

>You absolutely don't give people more money who live in more expensive areas

refurb on Oct 11, 2013 | [–]

So then you tell all the low incomes folks in SF "good luck"?

They are already getting more than the supposed guaranteed income and still there is a backlash about "kicking out the poor people".

Sounds like a recipe for social unrest.

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