The Relentless Tenant

History of UBI 1795 Thomas Paine was talking about a dividend for society. Basically a minimum guaranteed income or basic income. Napoleon once said that man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earths produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.  Nixon in the late sixties had proposed the access to basic income ('family assistance plan') in 1969 and it passed the house in 1970 and 1971 through the requirements to the point of passing the bill and it was shelved because the left wanted more basic income which had to first be resolved before the bill could be passed and the right felt that it would lead to divorce. This faded out and nothing became of it which had they persisted we would have reached a Universal Basic Income decades ago. UBI - the metaphor: What is it that you are not doing in life because you don't start each month with enough income to meet your basic needs? Because we are so busy worrying about how to acquire money to live there ...

Eviction is a 'Threat of Violence' against any tenant and the court seldom takes all the relevant circumstances into account as required by law. Leslie Stoter died from homelessness There should be an insurance against eviction simply because the day that you enter into that lease agreement you are binding yourself to a contract that could backfire on you should your life not go as you have planned. Oh hang on ... there is rent insurance available for the landlord. So my question is ... where is the extreme prejudice against all these landlords that they are claiming to be under and using as an urgency to throw you out? Are they perhaps too cheap to buy insurance? To begin with, you the tenants, are paying for someone else to own a property. They seem to feel that it is you who are using this property and therefore you should pay for it. Sure there is that theory ...  it has now developed into the misguided present day decision that you should pay the total cost ...