Colby Cosh: Why can’t basic income champions see that now is the worst time?

Colby Cosh: Why can't basic income champions see that now is the worst time?

Money is removed from a bank machine Monday May 30, 2016 in Montreal. Does anyone else have an “Am I being given crazy pills” moment when somebody trumpets some version of a universal basic income nowadays? On Tuesday the Parliamentary Budget Office published a response to a request by Independent Group Sen. Yuen Pau Woo; Sen. Woo had asked the PBO to estimate the costs of a federal guaranteed basic income for all Canadians between the ages of 18 and 64.

The senator proposed that the income amount ought to be in line with Ontario’s aborted 2017 pilot project on […]

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