President Donald Trump signs the coronavirus stimulus relief package in the Oval Office at the White House on March 27, 2020, in Washington, as his aides and political allies watch. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) The idea of a universal basic income (UBI), also called a citizen’s dividend or national dividend, has a long tradition going back to Thomas More’s “Utopia” in the 16th century, and Thomas Paine, one of the US founding fathers in the 18th century. Among other prominent advocates have been the 19th-century British philosopher Bertrand Russell and, under the guise of negative income tax, even American neoliberal […]
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