Austin becomes the first Texas city to experiment with ‘guaranteed income’

[bandababu]

Austin will be the first major Texas city to use local tax dollars to give cash to low-income families to keep them housed as the cost of living skyrockets in the capital city.

Under a yearlong, $1 million pilot program that cleared a key Austin City Council vote Thursday, the city will send monthly checks of $1,000 to 85 needy households at risk of losing their homes — an attempt to insulate low-income residents from Austin’s increasingly expensive housing market and prevent more people from becoming homeless.

[Raven_Rayes]

Yayyyy!!! I'm moving to Austin.

[Thokkalee]

85 households in all of Austin?? $1M per year?? Looks like they are doing this for publicity than with a real intention to help people..

[Beetbob123]

20 minutes ago, Raven_Rayes said:

Yayyyy!!! I'm moving to Austin.

@sulicheekusulliga

[chandrabhai7]

To keep homes govt helping aa. These are all signals of coming recession

[pakeer_saab]

55 minutes ago, Thokkalee said:

85 households in all of Austin?? $1M per year?? Looks like they are doing this for publicity than with a real intention to help people..

blues first alaage start chestaaru, later when the crap accumulates it become like CA

and those taking those $$ actually could have come from CA

lesson is those who live on doles will eventually live on doles itself

this is what happens when Texas turns blue

[Raven_Rayes]

Just now, pakeer_saab said:

blues first alaage start chestaaru, later when the crap accumulates it become like CA

and those taking those $$ actually could have come from CA

lesson is those who live on doles will eventually live on doles itself

this is what happens when Texas turns blue

actually research says the opposite. similar experiments in other cities around the world have been discontinued or scaled down not because its a flop, but because it was a huge success and yet they couldn't convince their cities to make the program permanent.

people who got a guaranteed income actually improved their lives by a lot and went off the dole after some months.. Not all, but most did.

[Thokkalee]

This is for home owners who are “poor” and cannot make the property tax payments… lower middle class and retirees cannot afford to pay the huge property taxes that gets increased every year… this is just bandaid treatment.. 

they can instead change the property tax code to not raise the home values for long term residents who are not making enough money.. in Texas, cities and counties totally rely on property taxes to fund schools and budgets.. state doesn’t fund the schools much.. 

[Rushabhi]

2 minutes ago, Thokkalee said:

This is for home owners who are “poor” and cannot make the property tax payments… lower middle class and retirees cannot afford to pay the huge property taxes that gets increased every year… this is just bandaid treatment.. 

they can instead change the property tax code to not raise the home values for long term residents who are not making enough money.. in Texas, cities and counties totally rely on property taxes to fund schools and budgets.. state doesn’t fund the schools much.. 

state tax lekunda corporate tax cuts chesthe alage undidhi

[Thokkalee]

1 minute ago, Rushabhi said:

state tax lekunda corporate tax cuts chesthe alage undidhi

Corporate tax cuts are common across the states to attract businesses and create jobs..

in a way it is good to rely on property taxes.. home owners are supposedly the middle/upper middle/rich class that can afford to pay mortgage and property taxes… 

state income tax will be charged across the classes.. and affect the lower income groups as well.. 

[Raven_Rayes]

4 minutes ago, Thokkalee said:

Corporate tax cuts are common across the states to attract businesses and create jobs..

in a way it is good to rely on property taxes.. home owners are supposedly the middle/upper middle/rich class that can afford to pay mortgage and property taxes… 

state income tax will be charged across the classes.. and affect the lower income groups as well.. 

bra antey annanu antaav..

income tax can also be designed to affect only the higher income groups no?

may be you the tax you have in mind is sales tax.

either way texas collects almost as much tax as california does (percentage of gdp wise).

[Raven_Rayes]

15 minutes ago, Thokkalee said:

they can instead change the property tax code to not raise the home values for long term residents who are not making enough money.. in Texas, cities and counties totally rely on property taxes to fund schools and budgets.. state doesn’t fund the schools much.. 

california tried it and it has become a mess there.

also how do you not raise taxes only for residents who are not making enough money? its much easier to simple give out money to that same section.. less extra bureaucracy.

[Tomb__ayya]

inkem,  pani matta em lekunda bathuktham, govt iche $1000 theskoni night druugggggs ammukoni, muggings/brake-ins/jacking  cheskunta bathuktham

[Telugodura456]

1 hour ago, Thokkalee said:

85 households in all of Austin?? $1M per year?? Looks like they are doing this for publicity than with a real intention to help people..

i agree. Lots of propoganda  so liberals like narsi @Raven_Rayes can pretend something is done for poor whom they secretely despise. Maree 85 households endho - atleast oka 100k aina oka meaning untundhi.

[mettastar]

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