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Showing posts with label basic income. Show all posts
Showing posts with label basic income. Show all posts
Sunday, November 3, 2024

UBI Is The Only Way To End Modern Slavery (Updated Re-Post)

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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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Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Excellent Article About UBI

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The ever-insightful Rodger Malcolm Mitchell has a  great new article  about the topic of UBI from a Monetary Sovereignty perspective.  Read ...
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Thursday, August 29, 2024

The Latest Universal Basic Income (UBI) Experiment Study Is A Political-Philosophical Rorschach Test

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Much has been made of the latest Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiment run by tech CEO Sam Altman, lasting for three years beginning in 20...
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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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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Friday, July 31, 2020

A Better Way To Solve The Mother Of All Fiscal Cliffs

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With the extra $600 per week in unemployment benefits set to expire today, combined with the income tax deadline that just recently passed (...
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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...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

The Big Lie of Economics

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Big Lies have a very long history indeed.  As the infamous Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels (who knew quite a thing or two about lyi...
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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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Thursday, March 22, 2018

How to Prepare for the Next Big Crash (Part Deux)

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As we have  noted before , things are really not looking good for the global economy this year.  Whether we actually experience another fina...
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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