The most important effect the coronavirus crisis may have on public opinion of UBI is the prevailing rationale. In the past, UBI has been seen largely as a remedy for automation-related job losses.
The pandemic might change the perception of UBI as a program chiefly aimed at the poor or long-term unemployed. “One concern that many people have about UBI is that it goes to people who don’t need it or don’t deserve it,” Marinescu says. “But this crisis has been so visible for everybody and has affected so many people that that’s far less of a concern.”
Whether COVID-19 will give the idea of universal basic income staying power after the crisis passes is hard to gauge.
hiltzikm Socialism has lost every time! You have the Wealthy and Poor, middle class is gone!
hiltzikm Stop your Socialist propaganda.
hiltzikm Simple- just print off 20 Benny's for everyone each month! Problem solved! (Throw in a pony, and I will be super jazzed about it).
hiltzikm Stupid!
hiltzikm This should be on the Opinion page
Sure, we can just print money... Boneheads.
The Communist Manifesto via the LAntifa Times.
You buried how many paragraphs down about the tax increases to make this possible?
Hiltzik putting his name on this is an embarrassment.
Did they fire all of the editors at your newspaper?
Did Bernie write this?
NOTHING will make universal minimum income palatable. Don't expect tax payers outside of Cali to pay for it. Yes, there are folks with disabilities who cannot work. We already help them. A booming economy is the best way to provide for all.
If you really think of it, basic housing and food aren't too much of a resource draw to be available to everyone. -Its usually the middlemen who crush common affordability of basic needs.
NO! A pandemic is not a reason to implement socialism. Nice try though. Not everyone is a sheep.
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