Comments on: Whether you’re left or right, Hugh Segal believes a basic income guarantee just makes good sense /2015/04/23/whether-youre-left-or-right-hugh-segal-believes-a-basic-income-guarantee-just-makes-good-sense/ Canadian leaders and leadership stories Sun, 03 May 2015 01:04:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.5 By: Roderick Benns /2015/04/23/whether-youre-left-or-right-hugh-segal-believes-a-basic-income-guarantee-just-makes-good-sense/#comment-21593 Sun, 03 May 2015 01:04:22 +0000 /?p=2083#comment-21593 Thanks for your comments, Larry. We’ll have more to say about this issue in the coming weeks. Thanks for reading and taking the time to write

]]> By: Larry Kazdan /2015/04/23/whether-youre-left-or-right-hugh-segal-believes-a-basic-income-guarantee-just-makes-good-sense/#comment-21569 Sat, 02 May 2015 06:43:44 +0000 /?p=2083#comment-21569 While there are many benefits of a guaranteed basic income, the weakness is that it may act as a disincentive for the able-bodied to work, and could lead to a discordant society of makers and takers. In contrast, the job guarantee encourages people to work and therefor reduces the potential for an inflationary spiral, as well as taxpayer resistance to funding the program.

Please note that JG work is completely voluntary and the JG does not preempt other programs such as UIC, welfare etc. Many prefer to work and contribute to society and they should have that choice which is what the JG provides.

For a more detailed discussion and comparison of the two proposals, you may wish to google

Job Guarantee vs Guaranteed Basic Income

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Additional background at:
Google “Modern Monetary Theory in Canada”

]]> By: Louis /2015/04/23/whether-youre-left-or-right-hugh-segal-believes-a-basic-income-guarantee-just-makes-good-sense/#comment-21357 Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:41:27 +0000 /?p=2083#comment-21357 Mr Segal,
Why did you retire? We need you more than ever.
We need your intelligent conservatism, not the ideological, divisive, ultra-partisan Reform-Republican we are stuck with right now.

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