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It doesn't sound like you read Paine's proposal. You're talking more about a collectivism along the lines of Socialism or Communism. That isn't what Paine is
by bcheung 11y ago
It doesn't sound like you read Paine's proposal. You're talking more about a collectivism along the lines of Socialism or Communism. That isn't what Paine is proposing. Under Paine's system people keep 100% of the fruits of their labor. Compulsion is not needed in order to have basic income. Basic income can be done in a way that is 100% compatible with private property rights and capitalism. Paine was not proposing that we tax income and use that for basic income.
- ctdonath 11y agoI was responding to the examples of allegedly successful "massive policy proposals", all of which were precisely not collectivism.