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Offline Squidward von Squidderson

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Re: Basic income program for Canada
« Reply #30 on: January 29, 2020, 02:54:37 pm »
You don't make people more autonomous by making everyone more dependent on government cheques.  You want to give money to everyone, even those who don't need it.  It's insane.  It can't even be paid for.

I don’t think the research shows that more people become dependant upon government cheques.  Do you have a cite?

Those who don’t need it can pay more in income tax to offset the fact that they don’t need it.

Alaska has already been doing this for years...   they give out monthly cheques to every citizen based on oil revenues.  Not sure why Alaska isn’t the subject of more studies on the impacts...