Let's take an honest look.

[Dill]

(06-14-2024, 08:02 AM)Synric Wrote: UBI sounds like an amazing idea until you realize the cost. Just giving the 300+ billion Americans 10k a year would cost roughly 4 trillion. I would rather see the Government force manufacturing jobs back into the US which was the backbone of the Middle class. The jobs don't exist anymore so neither does the middle class.

How would that be possible? 

I can see how diplomacy and pro-union trade organizations (as the TPP was to be) might help to raise costs elsewhere, possibly bringing back a fraction
of what has been offshored or outsourced. 

But I don't see how manufacturing jobs could be "forced" back, especially by a US government still essentially liberal (in the economic sense).