Title:
Basic income incoming?
Validity: Not available for nations without a welfare budget
[Description] Following @@NAME@@'s top economic analysts' prediction of the collapse of the nation's welfare system as we know it, there's been talk about a complete overhaul to avert the impending crisis - including the introduction of a universal basic income.
Options:
[Option] "Too right! We need a guaranteed income for everyone, and we need it quick!" Says @@RANDOMNAMEMALE@@, accompanied by his trophy wife and two children as he hops out of his SUV. "I believe it goes without saying that we should axe the current system to achieve this. If I'm going to be taxed like I am right now, I'd at least like *something* in return! Of course a basic income would apply to the unemployed as well, but being part of the upper middle class isn't easy, you know!" His wife and children nod in agreement.
[Effect] Starvation is plummeting while the rich enjoy their extra holiday a year.
[Option] In storms @@RANDOMNAME@@, head of @@NAME@@'s largest labor union, with a significant portion of the @@CAPITAL@@'s industrial workforce behind @@HIM@@. "Of course that's what *he* would say! The current welfare system is in place to help the less fortunate and it should keep on doing exactly that. Granting bourgeois pigs like mr. Money Bags over here a basic income is the easiest way to make the rich richer! Whatever happened to 'from each according to his ability, to each according to--'" @@HE@@'s cut off by the sound of @@HIS@@ eight squirming toddlers. "Anyway, our *need* is more money for welfare."
[Effect] Life expectancy is higher for the homeless than for retail workers.
[Option] "Please, everyone, hold your horses!" Pleads @@RANDOMNAME@@ amidst the escalating tensions. "The taxes. You haven't thought about the taxes, you parasites! The current welfare system has shown to be too large of a burden to be sustainable and a universal basic income is doomed to suffer the same fate. Besides, how is keeping people above the poverty line unconditionally going to tackle unemployment in any way? I say we just scrap it all and send the people a clear message -- an unemployed @@DEMONYM@@ is an unhappy @@DEMONYM@@."
[Effect] Inhabitants of @@NAME@@'s many concrete jungles don't see a penny from the emerging urban safari industry.
[Option] "By @@LEADER@@’s @@ANIMAL@@, I can't believe what I'm hearing!" Screams @@RANDOMNAME@@, the projected valedictorian of @@CAPITAL@@ University's graduating class this year. "I haven't even finished college yet and this is what you want to do to my future? The only reasonable option is a strong welfare system alongside universal basic income, no dilemma needed. Forget about the taxation, there's simply no alternative that ensures the well-being of every social class in @@NATIONNAME@@. I will not have me and my fellow students' fates decided by budget cuts!" @@HE@@ belts, before graduate caps get thrown all around.
[Effect] @@NAME@@ is thoroughly enjoying its high life standards before the taxpayer gets fed up.
Option 1 and 4 introduce policy: universal basic income?
