Milton Friedman, godfather of neo-liberalism, was an early supporter of UBI. Greens leader Richard di Natale reeled off plenty of radical ideas in his Canberra Press Club speech on Wednesday, but none harder to sell than the ‘ universal basic income ‘.
The universal basic income, or UBI, is not new to the Greens’ platform, but is now being promoted in a new context – the Greens policies are looking more ‘big government’ and ‘interventionist’ than ever before.
So if the Greens are lurching to the left to differentiate themselves from Labor, the UBI must be socialist policy, right?Actually no. The […]
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