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7 years, 10 months ago

confronting the idea of "taxpayers' money"

[...] the funding should be shown as coming from 'capital' or forms of rent, so the media could not present it as taxing Bill to pay Jack.

—p.286 Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen The Political Challenge--How To Get There From Here (279) by Guy Standing
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7 years, 10 months ago

the existing system topic/drift

[...] In the UK, the existing system was well described by the Scottish National MP Ronnie Cowan in a House of Commons debate on basic income in September 2016:

If we were all given a blank sheet of paper and asked to design a welfare system, nobody--but nobody--would come up with the system w…

—p.284 The Political Challenge--How To Get There From Here (279) by Guy Standing
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7 years, 10 months ago

the affordability question

It is often assumed that low-income countries cannot afford basic income. [...]

—p.237 Basic Income and Development (217) by Guy Standing
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a basic income pilot in Namibia topic/drift

[...] Once the cash transfers started, parents had enough money to pay school fees, and teachers had money to buy paper, pens, books, posters, paints and brushes, making the school more attractive to parents and children and raising the moral and, probably, the capacity of its teachers.

—p.231 Basic Income and Development (217) by Guy Standing
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problems with targeted basic income

[...] Targeting also addresses yesterday's, not tomorrow's, poverty; it aims to help those who have fallen into poverty rather than those in danger of doing so. Yet the most effective way to reduce poverty is to prevent it, as preventing poverty costs less than helping people out of it.

—p.223 Basic Income and Development (217) by Guy Standing