Saturday, August 9, 2014

The Pragmatic Libertarian Case for a Basic Income Guarantee

Cato Institute
The Pragmatic Libertarian Case for a Basic Income Guarantee
Matt Zwolinski | Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego, co-director of USD’s Institute for Law and Philosophy and founder of the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog


The Next New Deal
The Pragmatic Libertarian Case for a Basic Income Doesn't Add UpMike Konczal
(h/t Brad Delong)


Noahpinion
Basic Income is good because it's basic
Noah Smith | Assistant Professor of Finance, Stony Brook University

The Job Guarantee: Delivering the benefits that Basic Income only promises
Pavlina R. Tcherneva | Assistant Professor, Bard College

3 comments:

Matt Franko said...

"From the perspective of anyone concerned with limiting government and encouraging individual responsibility...."

But this indicates that these morons are blind to the authority of the state to provide the balances of state currency to provision 'the poor' in the first place... as how can they be "limiting government" when said government is the entity providing the balances of state currency???

How do these people's brains work?

This is like the libertarians that were around when God set up the manna economy for Israel... ok there God tells them that He will provide a daily ration of manna only don't save any of it... then these completely insane libertarians, in an effort to "promote personal responsibility" go on and start to save it when the Entity that had the authority had to be the One to provide it in the first place???

How do their brains work???

"OK, let's all we libertarian morons go out and pick up some free manna (which was provided daily via the authority in the first place you brain dead POS human pieces of garbage...) and save it so we can demonstrate "personal" responsibility.. yeah great idea! That would make sense to us!"

Schofield said...

Well "individual responsibility" would be tracking where the hell the money has to come from in the first instance to make the system work. But hey for Libertarians it's "good enough" to keep banging on about the importance of "individual responsibility" whilst lazily making no effort to lift the veil to see how that can in reality be fulfilled. All piss and no substance!

Matt Franko said...

Scho,

"veil": Good choice of words imo....

They are acting as if indeed literally blind to any of this... hard to understand for those of us who are not...

rsp,