Anti-Job, Pro-Freedom Quote Of The Week 57

Quick. What radical social policy has had the support of the Liberal Party, the former Reform Party, the NDP, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, free-market economist Milton Friedman, the Canadian Council on Social Development, the Canadian Manufacturers Association, certain taxpayers and poverty groups, and even Richard Nixon when he was president?

The guaranteed annual income.
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Opponents also protest that it would be helping some who are undeserving. (This mostly from those who were "born on third base and think they hit a triple"). The good fortune of inheriting wealth is "undeserved" - and tolerated. Access to the means for a dignified subsistence is deserved and should also be tolerated.
from
GAI: HERE'S A SOLUTION, WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?
by Rosella Melanson