Articles tagged with: conservative support
federal budget, taxes »
David Brooks writes about taxes, deficits, and morality in his column today in the New York Times, and his ideas suggest some good reasons to support income security for all. Brooks does not go so far, of course. Perhaps one day he will.
Here’s a key section:
Debt reduction has to be about renewal and prosperity, not [...]
jobs »
At GM and Chrysler, autoworkers and their union have agreed to concessions to “save” the companies, to save their jobs. Wages are falling. There have been many reports of falling wages, as well, in businesses and industries around the country.
That’s more evidence for why we need Citizen Dividends, a guaranteed basic income.
Economist Paul Krugman discusses [...]
federal budget »
The $3.4 trillion federal budget has passed both houses of Congress, nicely timed for President Obama’s 100th day in office. That’s total spending, the broad outlines, setting the scene for lots of fights over the details.
When people hear about Citizen Dividends, they often agree with the concept – stop the bailouts, give money directly [...]
conservatives, liberals, poverty »
The most cost-effective and least intrusive — thus, in one word, conservative — way to help the poor is with a guaranteed basic income, Citizen Dividends.
Every poor person will have some income, guaranteed, to meet their basic needs. That income will be provided with minimal government, because the same amount will go to everyone, [...]
environment »
About half way through Tom Friedman’s column in today’s New York Times is the following paragraph:
Representative John B. Larson, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, has circulated a draft bill that would impose “a per-unit tax on the carbon-dioxide content of fossil fuels, beginning at a rate of $15 per metric ton of CO2 and [...]
economic growth »
There’s a strong argument for Citizen Dividends, the guaranteed basic income, in Bob Herbert’s column in today’s New York Times. (It’s a strong argument for people like Herbert, that is, who worry about income inequality, the gap between the very rich and the rest of us; not so strong for people who think the gap [...]
federal budget »
Some questions about President Obama’s budget, regarding each item and expenditure: Who benefits? Who, specifically, is getting our taxpayer money? Is that appropriate and cost-effective?
Those are fairly obvious, though often not asked, and the answers typically come in a cloud of conventional assumptions and rhetoric.
Here’s a fourth: Would that still make sense if [...]