My first google US hit. Promising. Not only basic income, but coupled with reducing corporate welfare. And the numbers don’t seem crazy - $600-$800. I consider probably the majority of the arguments used appealing to libertarians. I didn’t expect much common ground at all.
This is pie-in-the-sky promises with no hard numbers or, actually, much of any economic analysis. Instead there’s a lot of handwaving about cutting government spending and corporate welfare, introducing flat tax (!), etc.
It’s one page on a web site. How much detail did you expect? They do refer to their party platform. Did you read that to look for details?
They say:
Economists have calculated that we can afford a universal basic income of $800 or more by cutting government, starting with corporate welfare and other programs that become superfluous.
Certainly a footnote would have been useful here. Maybe there is one in their party platform. But you can eyeball government spending and do some basic math yourself. $800 isn’t crazy talk, if you’re actually replacing other health and welfare programs.
I liked the basic principles they expressed—reduce government subsidies and tax carve outs. It surprised me to see the Greens come out in favor of that. I didn’t have high expectations in the first place.
http://www.gp.org/greenpages/content/volume8/issue3/oped5.php
My first google US hit. Promising. Not only basic income, but coupled with reducing corporate welfare. And the numbers don’t seem crazy - $600-$800. I consider probably the majority of the arguments used appealing to libertarians. I didn’t expect much common ground at all.
Not.
This is pie-in-the-sky promises with no hard numbers or, actually, much of any economic analysis. Instead there’s a lot of handwaving about cutting government spending and corporate welfare, introducing flat tax (!), etc.
It’s one page on a web site. How much detail did you expect? They do refer to their party platform. Did you read that to look for details?
They say:
Certainly a footnote would have been useful here. Maybe there is one in their party platform. But you can eyeball government spending and do some basic math yourself. $800 isn’t crazy talk, if you’re actually replacing other health and welfare programs.
I liked the basic principles they expressed—reduce government subsidies and tax carve outs. It surprised me to see the Greens come out in favor of that. I didn’t have high expectations in the first place.