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Mike
@mikeatx.bsky.social
40s, Scorpio, Queer
He/Him
Austin, TX
If you have questions about NIT, UBI, wealth taxes, inefficiencies in existing programs, etc you can just ask AI to help you. I’m not here for debate or social media engagement.
November 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
If you’re just making direct payments to people, things like SNAP aren’t necessary. A NIT focused on poverty elimination is something we can actually afford to do with a wealth tax; total cost is $200-400 Billion Annually depending on specifics. I’m not here to argue, I presented my opinion.
November 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Package it with a $22 federal minimum wage to further encourage people to get to work and not depend on the NIT. Use the remaining budget surplus to lower taxes on the middle class to get voter’s support.
November 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We need a 2% wealth tax about $5 Million and it should be used to pay for a Negative Income Tax. Set the floor at the state poverty line and a 50% rate. We could basically eliminate poverty and homelessness and the need for less efficient government assistance programs.
November 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
They spent over a year redacting, they’re probably making a final pass to make sure only non-MAGA names are visible.
November 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I definitely expect some short term pain while we transition from now to the future world managed by AI Super intelligence. Then, who knows. We either end up in the Cyberpunk, Star Trek, or Skynet sort of outcomes. My money is on Cyberpunk, Corpos, Augments, little government anywhere.
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Been playing with Antigravity and Cursor. I thing human written code and human read debugging is over. In 5 year we probably won’t even be able to interpret the languages AI tools develop to do what we ask of them.

There will definitely be a period of bad code cause by AI hallucination.
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I’m convinced the majority of social media is bots managed by organizations like Heritage Foundation. It costs nearly nothing to manage millions of accounts; they can be based anywhere in the world. Just algorithms that create some user engagement.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Let’s kill more children and abandon LGBTQ Americans because you believe the left can’t win. You’re just further supporting my argument. No wonder everyone hates liberals except liberals.
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I love how every one of your comments includes childish name calling. I’m a progressive democrat and a democratic socialist. You clearly prefer billionaires and killing Palestinian children like moderate democrats. Sorry you spend your energy not being civilized. Liberal-conservative democrats suck!
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Our country needs substantial change! If we’re not getting someone like AOC for the next president race, we’re doing to keep on losing. I would rather let MAGA burn this country to the ground than vote for a AIPAC funded democrat like Buttigieg or Newsom. Moderates are the entire problem.
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
In the modern U.S. political spectrum, "socialism" or "democratic socialism" is often used to describe policies that advocate for social democracy—a mixed economy with a robust welfare state, high taxes on the wealthy, strong unions, and universal public services (like healthcare or education).
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
FDR's New Deal policies were definitively pro-labor, the Democratic Party's move away from those principles and toward the neoliberal center in the last four decades created the bipartisan alignment that prioritized capital over the working and middle classes.
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The moderate, centrist, liberal-conservative democrats have been firmly aligned with the Republican party against working Americans and our democracy for literally a century.

Socialism is just left of center, it isn’t an extreme position to prioritize the working/middle class over the rich.
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Are there democrats that support Israel? Who out there is still siding with AIPAC’s decades of bloodshed and mass corruption of our political system? The US should dump Israel as an ally.
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
People should definitely record interviews so they can sue for discrimination. I’d assume that would be an easy case and would likely settle quickly.
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Our country never recovered from Reagan’s extensive harm; we will never recover American values from the MAGA destruction. The only path forward is a fresh start under a new system of government that keeps billionaires out of everything.
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
That would cost roughly $30 trillion annually, 5x our current annual spending
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Combining the 2% wealth tax and the elimination of existing programs would significantly offset, and potentially fully cover, the cost.

The biggest problem would be the impact to unemployment as thousands of federal employees would need to lose their jobs.
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We really need to be realistic! A $24k UBI exceeds our total federal spending at over $6 trillion.

We need a GMI or NIT. Institute a 2% wealth tax on only the rich, bring all Americans above the poverty line with direct cash payments, and get rid all other financial assistance.
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Nope, just going to cause inflation and more people in too much debt. It’s the opposite of consumer protection.
November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
It only took China 30 years to grow into a global super power with the fastest growing middle class in the world under it’s Socialist Market Economy. It’s almost like leftist principles work better than capitalism.
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM