On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Colin Stark wrote:
> At 03:34 PM 2/20/98 -0500, Thomas Lunde wrote:
> >Tom Walker answered:
> >
> >If I can try and paraphrase your answer, it would be that we should change
> because "a wage system is no longer appropriate to the way that a modern
> economy works." And because of this, the cost of providing a worker is
> borne by society as a whole and when business becomes more efficient and
> produces more with less labour the costs to society increase. Therefore the
> current system has an imbalance in the redistribution of income.
>
> Thank you for boiling it down
>
> >I think many would agree with you but the question I would ask is what
> philosophical reason would justify introducing a Basic Income in answer to
> the unspoken question of those who are benefiting from the current system?
>
> Because!
>
> Because IT IS OBVIOUS!
>
> Just do it!
>
> Who cares about philosphical, hypothetical, theorizing?
>
> There are 3 answers -- plus a hypothetical question!
>
Colin-There are 17 registered political parties in B.C. As far as I know
the Labour Welfare Party (PLWP96) is the only one which has the Robert
Stanfield concept of the guaranteed annual income as part of its platform.
Yet it considers itself as "left of left". You can contact LWP President
William Kay, L.L.B. at 877-8051. William ran a slate of 9 candidates in
the 1996 Vancouver election and did rather well. You might want him to be
a guest speaker at your Canadians for Direct Democracy meetings. Let me
know by private email how you fare with your call to LWP.
FWP.
