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Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive - NYTimes.com

www.nytimes.com
2013-11-13T16:55:59.000Z
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There are strong arguments against minimum or basic incomes, too. Cost is one. Creating a massive disincentive to work is another. But some experts said the effect might be smaller than you would think. A basic income might be enough to live on, but not enough to live very well on. Such a program would be designed to end poverty without creating a nation of layabouts. The Mincome experiment offers some backup for that argument, too.“For a lot of economists, the issue was that you would disincentivize work,” said Wayne Simpson, a Canadian economist who has studied Mincome. “The evidence showed that it was not nearly as bad as some of the literature had suggested.”

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Marsh vs. A Simple, Effective Way to Avoid Poverty, by Bryan Caplan

econlog.econlib.org
2011-09-29T18:10:37.000Z
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The Raw Story | CNN's Cafferty: Bush putting the poor out in the cold to fund war

rawstory.com
2007-10-26T03:28:50.000Z
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"No money for kids' health insurance, no money to help poor families pay their heating bills but President Bush wants $190 billion additional for 2008 for his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan"

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Whatever: Being Poor

www.scalzi.com
2005-09-06T17:45:28.000Z
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"Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs."

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