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Showing posts with label UBI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UBI. Show all posts
Friday, March 22, 2024

Objections To Universal Basic Income Debunked (Updated Re-Post)

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Back in 2017, there was an  article  in  The Week  by Damon Linker titled, "The Spiritual Ruin of a Universal Basic Income".  He b...
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Saturday, March 16, 2024

A "Job Guarantee", Without The Guarantee?

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The TSAP has once endorsed the MMT idea of a Job Guarantee (JG), which is exactly what it sounds like.  Of course, we also supported Univers...
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Thursday, May 18, 2023

UBI Is The Only Way To End Modern Slavery

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Most of the objections to Universal Basic Income (UBI), from both the left and the right (usually the right), are fundamentally patronizing,...
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Monday, May 17, 2021

Don't Want A Worker Shortage? Stop Paying Starvation Wages!

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The media hype over a supposedly widespread worker shortage gas been rife lately, and of course being blamed on a supposedly over-generous s...
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Sunday, February 14, 2021

We Need To Do Both

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If you are confused about how to save America, you are NOT alone.  To fix this country we need to get out of this nasty rut we are stuck in ...
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Saturday, March 28, 2020

The Stimulus: Too Little, Too Late--But Still A Good Start

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The much awaited stimulus package finally passed Congress and was signed into law by Trump yesterday.  While it is a good start, it is far t...
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Sunday, January 13, 2019

Raise The Floor, And Also Trim The Top

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It is well known that excessive inequality is very harmful to both the economy and society at large.  Even before we learned the truth abo...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

What "Give People Money" Gets Right--And Wrong at the Same Time

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One of our favorite journalists, Annie Lowrey, recently wrote a book called Give People Money:  How a Universal Basic Income Would End Pove...
Saturday, April 28, 2018

We Endorse Andrew Yang 2020 (With Reservations)

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As we have noted in the previous post about upcoming Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang, based on his stance on the issues ...
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Thursday, April 12, 2018

An Honorary TSAP Candidate, Andrew Yang 2020

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Imagine if you were to indefinitely receive $1000 per month, with no strings attached.  That is a whopping $12,000 per year.  Not enough to ...
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Friday, March 30, 2018

The Real Cause of "Secular Stagnation": Extreme Inequality

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Much has been made of the concept of " secular stagnation ", namely, that the current and future long-term potential for economic ...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

How to Prepare for the Next Big Crash

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As we have noted in the  previous article , the risk of the next big economic crash continues to loom larger than ever before, and it is mo...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

We Need A Carbon Tax-and-Dividend, Yesterday

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We at the TSAP have long been pushing for a carbon tax-and-dividend (aka fee-and-dividend, feebate, fee with rebate, revenue-neutral tax, o...
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Sunday, July 2, 2017

Latest Minimum Wage Study Reeks of Junk Science

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A new study claims that Seattle's minimum wage law cost jobs, despite the fact that their unemployment rate dropped dramatically since...
Friday, May 5, 2017

The "Spiritual Ruin" of a Universal Basic Income? No, Not Really.

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Recently, there was an article in The Week by Damon Linker titled, "The Spiritual Ruin of a Universal Basic Income".   He basica...
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