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If you had an extra $7.5 million lying around, what would you do with it?

Probably not this:

• Cook County, Illinois, is making its guaranteed basic income program permanent after launching it as a pilot program in 2022 with the help of federal COVID-19 relief funds.

  The Cook County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved $7.5 million to make the program permanent last week, Fox News reported. Cook County is the second-largest county in the U.S. and includes the city of Chicago.

  “Guaranteed basic income programs have become a trend across the U.S. in recent years with more than 100 pilots launched since 2018. Mayors for Guaranteed Income grew into a coalition of 150 mayors pushing pilot programs, offering low-income participants up to $1,000 a month with no strings attached,” according to the report. “The group has pushed pilot programs that have been adopted by municipalities across the country.” 

  The Cook County program, at one point, was the largest publicly funded program in the U.S., receiving $42 million from the American Rescue Plan Act. The Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot gave monthly payments of $500 to 3,250 households for two years “with no strings attached,” according to the report.

How about refunding it to the taxpayers who just saw another massive tax increase at the City level and will undoubtedly see another at the county level. It's crap like this that keeps the tax burden climbing and driving earners out because the leeches have gotten too used to not actually working and being responsible for their spending habits.