Is Universal Basic Income a Good Idea?

"I know in my soul that something is fundamentally wrong with universal basic income and it keeps coming up," says Nick Clegg. "It makes me think of Czechoslovakia in 1947, when the free society there was being squashed by people who didn't believe in truth for various reasons", he adds. 'Do we really want to use taxpayer's money to get more of that? Do we think this is going to mean a lot more community service or boning up on your Schopenhauer'