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Comment by David Rolf

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Vice President of SEIU and President of SEIU Local 775 in Seattle
I happen to think universal basic income and a high minimum wage work well in combination to produce tighter labor markets, more consumer spending power, and if McDonald's want to lure you out of your rock band or off your couch to go and cook french fries, they ought to have to pay a premium for that.
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Disputed The 2016 Medium essay by David Rolf is real, but its text does not contain this quote or its distinctive phrases (for example, the article has no matches for “rock band,” “McDonald’s,” or “premium”); an Economic Security Project repost of the same essay also lacks the passage. The only place I found the quote reproduced is a YouCongress entry that cites the Medium URL while itself labeling the source “AI Unverifiable.” That means the quotation is at least misattributed to the provided source, and I could not confirm it verbatim from a reliable primary source. ([medium.com](https://medium.com/%40davidrolf_1969/why-would-a-labor-leader-support-a-universal-basic-income-22d9d37e1514)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable The source URL (https://medium.com/@davidrolf_1969/why-would-a-labor-leader-support-a-universal-basic-income-22d9d37e1514) returns a 403 Forbidden error, making it impossible to verify whether the page contains this quote. A web search for distinctive phrases in the quote ("rock band", "french fries", "universal basic income", David Rolf) yielded no results. The vote alignment (for, re: "Implement a universal basic income") matches the quote's content. The quote is from 2016, which is older than 2025/2026, and no recent replacement quote was found. Marking as ai_unverifiable due to inaccessible source URL. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 3mo ago
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