JonWood007

What is your thought on the concept of universal basic income?

Wouldn't a vat devalue the basic income in effect by making goods and services more expensive?

Many previous pilots implemented a negative income tax style structure or were untaxed. They did not implement a vat to my knowledge.

Senator Sanders, what is your opinion on the concept of a universal basic income? Switzerland is considering the idea, and I was wondering what you would think of a similar idea being implemented in the US.

It's more the fact that this thing that we're not interested in is pervasive in our culture to the point people are looked down on for not being interested in it, and the belief itself can cause significant harm to others in terms of how it affects peoples' actions.

We have movements in the US that want to make all of us abide by laws that are based on this thing we're not interested in.

And if you really think about it, to some degree, isn't this thing harmful? What about all the split families and bad decisions this thing causes?

Sure. some atheists are legitimately angry in the sense that they're ex believers themselves who feel betrayed for being misled for a significant portion of their lives, and may suffer from some psychological stuff because of that. But between that and what religion is doing to our larger society, I'd argue that it very much is our business what other people believe, because those beliefs translate into harmful actions and social policy in practice. It's not even about them secretly believing. It's more "man, I wasted how many years of my life and made how many bad decisions based on this incorrect worldview? this sucks, i'm gonna go tell everyone so they don't make the same mistakes that I did!"

That being said, no one actually wants to ban it, we just want to talk people out of it. banning is a worse cure than the disease and makes us no better than what we dislike in religion. And quite frankly, no self respecting atheist college professor would act as your character did in the movie. it was a total strawman. The claims that it's a form of "christian porn" are accurate. it fits a christian stereotype of what an atheist is...when these same people often don't know what an atheist is.