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What Alaska’s First Use of Ranked-Choice Voting Has to Teach the Rest of Us About How We Vote
A Reminder That Representative Democracy is About Representing the Majority
Scott Santens
Sep 9, 2022
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September 2021
The Republican History of the Child Tax Credit and Why the GOP Should Proudly Embrace It
From Reagan, to Bush, to the Contract with America, to George W. Bush, to Trump, the child tax credit is a Republican creation that the GOP should…
Scott Santens
Sep 15, 2021
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Escaping Together
Thoughts about basic income, surviving disasters, and the future we must escape from
Scott Santens
Sep 8, 2021
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August 2021
My wife is immunocompromised. That's why I feel so strongly about people getting vaccinated.
Your freedom to do what you want ends at the freedoms of others to not be killed.
Scott Santens
Aug 10, 2021
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July 2021
How Republican President Richard Nixon Laid the Foundation for Monthly Cash for Kids
Making Our New Guaranteed Income for Kids Permanent is a Real Path to Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Scott Santens
Jul 30, 2021
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March 2021
What about combining a higher federal minimum wage with monthly recurring direct payments?
We can increase incomes, reduce taxes, accelerate automation, and grow the economy.
Scott Santens
Mar 1, 2021
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February 2021
A Pandemic is a Great Time to Stop Ignoring Unpaid Care Work
Care work is work. We need to recognize it and support it with monthly income.
Scott Santens
Feb 6, 2021
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January 2021
Escaping the Cult Commander in Chief
Biden is in and Trump is out, but it's nowhere near the end of our problems as a democracy in dire need of systemic reforms and more widely shared…
Scott Santens
Jan 13, 2021
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Escaping the Cult Commander in Chief
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October 2020
Should we support the many basic income experiments that aren't actually testing UBI?
Questioning the strategy of non-universal cash grant pilot experiments
Scott Santens
Oct 27, 2020
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Should we support the many basic income experiments that aren't actually testing UBI?
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Why I'm voting for Biden/Harris 2020
(Because Trump needs to go, because we need campaign finance reform, and because of the potential for fully refundable tax credits and monthly stimulus…
Scott Santens
Oct 12, 2020
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We need UBI because we all need money, power, and trust
Inhumanity reigns so long as we don’t trust each other with the power to choose the directions of our own lives, free of economic coercion
Scott Santens
Oct 5, 2020
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We need UBI because we all need money, power, and trust
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May 2020
Keep up to date on what Scott Santens is doing
Welcome to Foreword to Civilization by me, Scott Santens. Writer and Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) advocate with a crowdfunded basic income; Board of…
Scott Santens
May 11, 2020
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