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5 Reasons to Consider a No-Strings-Attached, Basic Income for All
Friday, April 11, 2014 9:48
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An idea whose time has finally come.
What if you could receive a guaranteed basic yearly income with no strings attached? Didn’t matter how much money you made now, or in the future. Nobody would ask about your job status or how many kids you have. The check would arrive in the mailbox, no matter what.
Sounds like a far-fetched idea, right? Wrong. All over the world, people are talking guaranteeing basic incomes for citizens as a viable policy.
Half of all Canadians want it. The Swiss have had a referendum on it. The American media is all over it: The New York Times’ Annie Lowrey considered basic income as an answer to an economy that leaves too many people behind, while Matt Bruenig and Elizabeth Stoker of the Atlantic wrote about it as a way to reduce poverty.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/04/5-reasons-to-consider-a-no-strings-attached-basic-income-for-all/
