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(This article is co-posted on SocialCanada.org. This is the first of a two-part series. )
The Basic Income concept has been gaining traction in Canada, to the point where detractors are finding it necessary to start attacking it. The Broadbent Institute (BI) on the left, and MacDonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) on the right, have published opinions of opponents to the idea. The main objections are based on estimated costs of the more expensive models and concern about the impact of unconditional money on the incentive to work.Both the MLI document (1) and a recent Broadbent (2) webinar have taken […]
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