The Worst Thing About the “Basic Income Guarantee” Scheme …

… and may have said this before, and at some point plan to write a pro-con piece on it with Steve Trinward … is:

What if it “works?”

Jesse Walker does a bit of an historical survey on the idea for next month’s Reason : Andy Stern is a former president of the Service Employees International Union. Charles Murray may be America’s most prominent right-wing critic of the welfare state. So when they appeared onstage together in Washington, D.C., last fall to discuss the basic income — the idea of keeping people out of poverty by giving them regular […]

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