May 6

Okay, I need some help trying to figure some things out. Community brain storming perhaps.
I am assuming that there are actually currently countries that are providing their citizens with a basic income each month.....and of course we are the only industrialized, developed country in the whole world who does not provide health care to every citizen and other person dwelling in our borders at a cost only through taxes. So, if other countries have had their economies fall apart as has the United States' economy....how do other governments manage to continue providing life giving and sustaining food/rent/health care to their citizens and others if they are not getting tax revenue either? Now it is true I am making a bunch of assumptions here that there are indeed countries with a basic income and that there are indeed countries that are continuing to provide essential services to citizens and others. Or perhaps the rest of the world is failing as heartily as is the United States.

I remember when I lived in China a student being very surprised to find out that the United States did not have universal health care. She said, "the richest country in the world does not have that?" I said that perhaps we are rich because we do not take care of our vulnerable.