Universal Basic Income isn’t likely to disappear off the policy agenda any time soon. That’s not because it’s some “leftie nonsense” as some in the media would suggest — even though the Greens in both the UK and Australia have adopted it. Quite the opposite — UBI is a neoliberal solution to a particularly neoliberal problem.
As New Daily’s Rob Burgess has noted , one of the early spruikers of UBI was, famously, Milton Friedman, who called it a “negative income tax”. Friedman also wanted a road pricing scheme in which roads would be painted with radioactive paint and each […]
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