How ‘basic income for all’ could lift millions out of poverty while cutting back ‘big government’

[KamaAina]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/how-basic-income-for-all-could-lift-millions-out-of-poverty-while-cutting-back-big-government/

The idea of a basic income for every person has been popping up regularly in recent years.

Economists, think tanks, activists and politicians from different stripes have toyed with the idea of governments giving every citizen or resident a minimum income off which to live. This cash transfer could either replace or supplement existing welfare payments....

Some libertarians like basic income because it promises a leaner state without a large bureaucracy checking people’s eligibility and policing their behavior. Others see it as enabling entrepreneurialism – the poor helping themselves.

On the left, many see basic income as an opportunity to plug numerous holes in the social safety net or even to free people from “wage slavery.” For feminists, basic income is a successor to the old demand for wages for housework.

[Warpy]

1. It would involve clawing the country's wealth back from the plutocrats and their bloated military

so I doubt it would ever be done unless the mob was in both houses of Congress, holding deadly weapons at the heads of every craven, bought man in the place.