Atlas Star:Presidential election debate commentary thread

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

You know it says something about how far we have come and at the risk of it being labled "echo-chamber consensus", that both Labor and Federalist candidates came out against the minimum income.

But just to make sure before someone is tempted to use this as a justification to return to the good ole days of unicameralism,

Minimum income was passed pre-reset 7-1 in 2013:

Vote on Final Passage of the Basic Income Guarantee:

Aye (7): bore, Gass3268, NC Yankee, sbane, TJ in Cleve, TNF and Xahar
Nay (1): Maxwell
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (2): Napoleon and Tmthforu94

With time having expired and seven votes in the affirmative, the Basic Income Guarantee has passed the Senate and is presented to the President for executive action.

So plenty of consensus to go around, just on a far more socialist basis.


Of course my understanding was we would repeal or scale back the minimum wage in exchange, which of course never happened.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

They used to be spread out in a blocks. Even in October of last year, I think they were split up and I struggled and missed most of the deadlines because of Hurricane Matthew and work.