In perhaps the single most astounding passage of her campaign memoir What Happened, Hillary Clinton reveals a campaign proposal she formulated with staffers but never actually released: a universal basic income for Americans, funded by carbon and financial transaction taxes.
"I wanted very much to convey a commitment to trying to figure ways to raise incomes," she said in an interview with Vox’s Ezra Klein. "The Alaska model where they write a check to every single Alaskan every year based on a formula about the oil and gas revenues was really intriguing to me.”
Here’s the relevant passage of the book, […]
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