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Basic income is not a left vs right issue. Lots of libertarians (including Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek) support basic income as a more efficient safety

• brazzy 12y ago
  Uh... how exactly do they see "basic income" and "government-run" as opposites?
  • webXL 12y ago
    Here's an example: vouchers vs. one size fits all public schools. They're not opposites; vouchers just free up resources by using market forces to prevent good money to go to bad schools.
  • tbrownaw 12y ago
    It has less knobs for politicians to twiddle.
  • dragonwriter 12y ago
    There's two sides: (1) Collecting the money used, and (2) And choosing how to spend money for the benefit of the beneficiaries. Both basic income and traditional welfare rely on government for #1, true. The difference is in #2.
• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > Basic income is not a left vs right issue. Yes, it is. > Lots of libertarians (including Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek) support basic income as a more efficient safety net than government-run programs. Well, first, "libertarian" says nothing about left vs. right. "Lots of libertarians support one side of the issue" doesn't mean it doesn't split left vs. right. Second, neither Milton Friedman nor Friedrich Hayek can be counted as current supporters of, well, anything.