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ars on June 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Activists push for guaranteed minimum income for C...

Is that the plan? Because that's not what basic income is. What you are describing also exists, but it has a different name (Welfare, Earned income credit, to list two examples).

sarchertech on June 30, 2014 | [–]

It's called Guaranteed Minimum Income, which is what this article was talking about, in contrast to Universal Basic Income.

sb23 on June 29, 2014 | [–]

Well, it seems it'd be impossible to literally pay every person in Canada $20k a year.

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