(image: mTanagon / shutterstock.com) There are at least three general categories of arguments in favor of a Universal Basic Income (UBI), a basic income grant, or a negative income tax. Yes, I know, those three are not fully interchangeable. But the distinctions are less important for present purposes than the similarities.
One set of arguments is based on the idea that we’re paying them already, so let’s just give them the cash. P.J. O’Rourke famously made this claim ( Weekly Standard , January 30, 2012) when he wrote: The federal government has some 50 different “poverty programs.” Nearly half a […]
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