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MaxSpeak vs. VoxSpeak: the reckoning
I’ve said that the Universal Basic Income (UBI) proposal should be read not as a proposal, but as a critique of the really-existing U.S. welfare state. My contention is that it is not a well-founded...
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In defense of social insurance
On Twitter I said: “The basic income movement is an attack on the strongest political pillar of social-democracy: social insurance.” I’ve inveighed against the Universal Basic Income in the past, so...
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Il Manifesto
My friends at Vox keep banging away for the so-called Universal Basic Income, or “UBI”, so I have to keep banging back. There have also been substantive comments here. I will try to respond to them,...
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Does the UBI need work?
Commenters point me to some illuminating work on the UBI by Ed Dolan (‘ED’). The chief burden of the UBI for some is the potentially harmful effect on work incentives. I do not share this misgiving...
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Global citizens and the global government
Trigger warning: going into full Grinch mode! Why is there poverty? The Occupy movement pointed to the illegitimate appropriation of wealth by “the 1%.” I am looking in vain for a glimmer of that...
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