At 11:35 01/02/2010 -0500, Sally wrote:
Time for basin income yet?
US | January 30, 2010
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/us/30borrow.html?emc=eta1>Jobless Turn
to Family for Help
By MICHAEL LUO
When unemployment leads to borrowing from family and friends, the
experience can be stressful.
I think the basic idea of a basic income is needed. Otherwise, increasing
numbers will be thrown to the dogs (see my other message) as automation
grows. But I don't see how the middle class will stomach the taxation
involved if it's to be a basic income for all. If we changed from income
taxation to a sales tax then we could have a basic income for all the needy
and the unemployed so long as it tailed off quickly when it met the lowest
wages of those with jobs. Otherwise I see nothing but disaster.
Keith
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
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