I support a basic income program:
“Matt Zwolinski, founder of Bleeding Heart Libertarians, thinks basic income would be no worse than the current welfare state, which often stops providing benefits when recipients become employed. “As a result,” he says, “poor families often find that working more (or having a second adult work) simply doesn’t pay.” Zwolinski believes libertarians and small-government conservatives should be fighting to replace welfare with a basic income guarantee, which would shrink the government and promote personal independence—two tenants of their political beliefs.”
Our current welfare system pays people not to work. A basic income program is the opposite: it creates a true safety net through which people can never fall and if people work and earn more than their basic income, no problem. Pro work, pro family and from a conservative point of view it would cost way less than all of our welfare programs put together today do. And its the most efficient way to tackle poverty.
With an income ceiling to determine when you no longer require this payment?
Sounds logical.
Might work if executed as described, but it won’t be will it?
I can see politicians using “basic income” to bribe voters.
“The Republicans want to cut your Basic Income!” (i.e. they want to reduce the rate of increase.)
Won’t work. Especially when it becomes a “right.”