Why Is No One Talking About The Obvious Problems With Universal Basic Income?

Why Is No One Talking About The Obvious Problems With Universal Basic Income?

It’s surprising how quickly the idea of a universal basic income has gained traction in India.

The idea is bad and extremely dangerous for India.

I have come across two eminently sensible articles on the applicability, and the relevance, of ‘Universal Basic Income’ for India. One was by Professor Pulapre Balakrishnan (ht: Praveen Chakravarty), and the other by Rajesh Kumar of Mint . (Disclosure: He is Editor of the Edits page that carries my weekly columns.)Prof Balakrishnan’s article is crisply written. Here is a sample: But the answer to the accumulating subsidy bill lies less in moving to the distribution of […]

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