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State Chapters => California => Topic started by: mystery-ak on April 05, 2022, 07:43:31 pm
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April 5, 2022 11:06am EDT
California city to give universal income to transgender, nonbinary residents regardless of earnings
Palm Springs will set aside $200,000 for the program
By Houston Keene | Fox News
A California city is planning to give universal basic income (UBI) to transgender and nonbinary residents regardless of their earnings level.
Transgender residents in Palm Springs, California are eligible to receive a UBI of up to $900 per month solely for identifying as transgender or nonbinary — no strings attached.
The new pilot program will have $200,000 set aside for allocation after a unanimous vote by the Palm Springs City Council last week.
Former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio, a Republican who served as the first openly gay member of the city council, called the program "outrageous and discriminatory."
"We're completely opposed to guaranteed or universal basic income programs, because they ultimately cause inflation and raise the cost of living on everyone — they don't work," DeMaio said in a statement.
"But at least some of them have minimum income requirements to qualify, whereas this one is no-strings-attached 'woke' virtue signaling to the LGBT community in a way that is not only offensive but discriminatory," he continued.
Twenty transgender and nonbinary Palm Springs residents will receive the free money funded by the taxpayers for 18 months, with advocacy-based health center DAP Health and LGBT advocacy group Queer Works managing the program.
A six-month design period will be the precursor of the program’s implementation, in which the group Mayors for a Guaranteed Income will be involved providing guidance.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-city-universal-income-transgender-residents
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Gender discrimination. Somebody needs to sue.
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Gender discrimination. Somebody needs to sue.
Yeah, but I would not want to live there to establish 'standing'.
Fuhgeddaboudit!
Let the city go broke with their wokeness, and don't bail them out.
(I wonder how many rainbow flag waving homeless folks will show up just for the (drug) money and not the 'lifestyle'?)
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Yeah, but I would not want to live there to establish 'standing'.
Fuhgeddaboudit!
Let the city go broke with their wokeness, and don't bail them out.
(I wonder how many rainbow flag waving homeless folks will show up just for the (drug) money and not the 'lifestyle'?)
@Smokin Joe
I wonder how many working-class heterosexual people will show up to claim it because they just need that money to live,given the high cost of everything in Ca?
Hell,if I were younger and out of work,I'd be temped to move there to get that free non-taxable income by claiming I was bi-sexual,because we should ALL know by now that the cash freebie is in addition to free housing,food,clothing,utilities,etc,etc,etc.
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@Smokin Joe
I wonder how many working-class heterosexual people will show up to claim it because they just need that money to live,given the high cost of everything in Ca?
Hell,if I were younger and out of work,I'd be temped to move there to get that free non-taxable income by claiming I was bi-sexual,because we should ALL know by now that the cash freebie is in addition to free housing,food,clothing,utilities,etc,etc,etc.
Well, as long as you don't have to prove it, you'd likely be okay...