by Thomas Walkom
Back in the 1970s, a basic income (or guaranteed annual income as it was called then) was seen as way to end poverty.
Those on the right viewed the concept, which in its purest form involves government handing out cheques to everyone below a certain income level, as a way to cut back a debilitating and ruinously expensive welfare system.Those on the left saw it as a simpler and more humane way to transfer money to the needy. Manitoba’s New Democratic government briefly experimented with the idea.There were plenty of needy people in those days. Still, poverty […]
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