Thomas Lunde wrote:
>
> Hi FWer's:
>
> Some of my recent reading has asked me to consider some serious
> questions, questions which need to be discussed and critiqued. I
> will pose some of these questions and see what kind of responses the
> questions evoke. For example:
>
> Given that the concept of a Basic Income, Guaranteed Annual Income or
> some other variant on this theme, what would the philosophy be that
> could justify giving every man, woman and child a Basic Income paid on
> a weekly basis with no other qualification other than citizenship?
>
>
Hasn't our society already answered this question for all those
persons who "come into" an annual income by accident of
birth rather than their accountable personal efforts? (This is obvious,
but surely not irrelevant.)
\brad mccormick
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