{"id":36032,"date":"2017-04-10T18:42:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T01:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/is-monetizing-federal-land-the-way-to-pay-for-basic-income"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:05:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:05:23","slug":"is-monetizing-federal-land-the-way-to-pay-for-basic-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/is-monetizing-federal-land-the-way-to-pay-for-basic-income","title":{"rendered":"Is monetizing federal land the way to pay for basic income?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here\u2019s a very important article to me\u2014and a part of my platform moving forward. Automation is coming, but we don\u2019t need to raise taxes to pay for a Basic Income. There are other ways to deal with our jobless future and poverty in America.<\/p>\n

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Like the Titanic, capitalism is sinking, but few passengers are wondering yet if there are enough lifeboats.<\/p>\n

I recently declared<\/a> my run as a Libertarian for California governor<\/a> in 2018, and I gently support the idea of a state-funded basic income to offset the effects of ubiquitous automation. A basic income would give every Californian some money \u2014 and it makes sense to start such a dramatic program here in the Golden State, since this is where much of the human-job-replacing-tech is created.<\/p>\n

My Libertarian friends are skeptical of my support for a basic income. They insist the only way to pay for such a program is via higher taxes. This is not true; other ways exist. California could potentially cut deals with the federal government to lease its empty land and natural resources to help pay for a basic income.<\/p>\n

After all, state and federal resources belong to the people, and 45 percent<\/a> of California (more than 45 million<\/a> acres) is government-controlled land, leaving vast areas idle and mostly undeveloped.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a very important article to me\u2014and a part of my platform moving forward. Automation is coming, but we don\u2019t need to raise taxes to pay for a Basic Income. There are other ways to deal with our jobless future and poverty in America. Like the Titanic, capitalism is sinking, but few passengers are wondering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58111,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36032\/revisions\/58111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}