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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor extended support to actor-politician Kamal Haasan’s poll promise of providing income to women homemakers. (Photo Credits: PTI) New Delhi, January 5: Congress leader and member of parliament (MP) from Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor, in a tweet on Tuesday extended his support to actor-politician Kamal Haasan’s recent promise of guaranteeing an income to the women homemakers. Tharoor in his tweet said that the move, if and when implemented, would help "recognise and monetise the services of women homemakers in society" and help getting near the goal of "universal basic income." Tharoor’s tweet of support comes days after […]

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Kangana Ranaut has reacted to a tweet by Sashi Tharoor. Actor Kangana Ranaut has opposed actor-turned politician Kamal Haasan’s idea of recognising housework done by homemakers as a salaried profession. She responded to a tweet by Shashi Tharoor who supported Kamal’s idea and said that this “will enchance their power and create near-universal basic income.”

Echoing Kamal Haasan’s view that even homemakers must be paid for their services, Shashi tweeted, “I welcome @ikamalhaasan’s idea of recognising housework as a salaried profession, w/the state govt paying a monthly wage to homemakers. This will recognise & monetise the services of women homemakers […]

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Taiwan’s Ministry of Finance has issued a notice on basic income eligible for an exemption from income basic tax and related deductions for 2021. The income basic tax (IBT) is essentially an alternative minimum tax levied at a rate of 12% for enterprises and 20% for individuals. The notice confirms that the deduction/exemption amounts for the BIT for 2021 are maintained at TWD 500,000 and TWD 6.7 million for enterprises and individuals, respectively.

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Announcement regarding the amounts of basic income eligible for an exemption from income basic tax and related deductions for 2021 The Ministry of Finance made an […]

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Ron Paul. Photo by David Carlyon, Wikipedia Commons. World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab has proposed using the overreaction to coronavirus to launch a worldwide “Great Reset.” This Great Reset is about expanding government power and suppressing liberty worldwide.

Schwab envisions an authoritarian system where big business acts as a partner with government. Big business would exercise its government-granted monopoly powers to maximize value for “stakeholders,” instead of shareholders. Stakeholders include the government, international organizations, the business itself, and “civil society.”

Of course, government bureaucrats and politicians, together with powerful special interests, will decide who are, and are […]

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Many areas are confronting COVID-19’s economic fallout, illegal hunting , mining, deforestation , and bushmeat consumption all tend to increase during downturns. This is why UBI can help.

“Nature is healing” read social media posts at the outset of the pandemic, as birdsong replaced the drone of traffic during lockdown. But for wildlife conservation in Africa, the reality was very different. Anti-poaching operations in protected areas were paused or restricted to limit the spread of the virus, leaving populations of threatened species like the African lion vulnerable. Now these areas are confronting COVID-19’s economic fallout, and research suggests that […]

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SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — The new year brought a disturbing discovery at the San Francisco home of U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, where, early Friday morning, vandals spray-painted her house and left a severed pig’s head in front of her garage.

The graffiti says “Cancel rent” and “We want everything” — possibly referencing coronavirus stimulus checks. There was also a severed pig’s head in a pool of red paint left in front of the garage door.

She wasn’t the only lawmaker targeted.Vandals also spray painted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s door in Kentucky on Saturday with “WERES MY MONEY.” […]

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will be lost, especially in manufacturing an software industries. Recently, Elon Musk famous businessman and inventor, declans near future that governments would be for to pay people just so that they could live The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerb expressed a slightly different perspective UBI recently. While addressing graduating students at Harvard, Zuckerberg spoke of how the next generation of young people wanted to begin working would be faced unique problem created by the recent ad world […]

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) talks to reporters following the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on September 30, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Vandals struck the homes of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the first days of the year. In both cases, the apparent vandals spray-painted messages related to stimulus checks. Several messages, including “weres my money” were spray-painted across the front door of the Kentucky Republican’s home . The vandalism came shortly after the Senate adjourned Friday night without approving […]

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The $5,500 arrived in the middle of August with no strings attached. For Zabria Proctor, it was a godsend. The rent was due. The car loan and insurance needed paying. Bills were piling up. The fridge was often close to bare.

The pandemic had cost Proctor her job as a bus driver for special- needs children in Prince George’s County. Her husband’s work as a car detailer dried up quickly. What little money they had saved soon evaporated as well.

Like millions of low-income American families, the couple were brought to the brink by the economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus […]

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