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Can we afford [not] to have Universal Basic Income? (re-release)

The Rational View podcast with Dr. Al Scott

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The Ideal Time to Push Forward on UBI

"We created a huge spreadsheet of every tax reform idea that's ever been proposed in Canada. We sliced and diced that into eight different ways to raise about 113 billion dollars," he said. "This is basically the opposite of the neoliberal trickle down ideas that kind of flunk over the past 50 years or so" He says UBI would be temporary and sustainable because, again, the economy would grow with the basic income.

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