Republican lawmakers in Arizona are joining a chorus of conservatives across the country trying to ban basic income programs, which offer residents no-strings-attached payments.
Arizona state lawmakers introduced a bill that would ban any municipality or county from making payments to a person as part of a guaranteed basic income program. The law, House Bill 2375, describes a “guaranteed income program” as any program where someone receives payments that are “unearned” and can be used for any reason.
I would argue that some lawmaker’s salaries are unearned.
There’s a lot that goes into being a lawmaker. Though one could argue that being in charge of one’s salary leads to stupidly high wages