[Craig Axford]
The following series of posts regarding a basic income guarantee were written by Joshua McCabe, a PhD candidate in the department of sociology at the University at Albany and an Adam Smith Fellow at the Mercatus Center. All posts were written for the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog.
Joshua McCabe, “The Positive Political Economy of the Basic Income Guarantee”, Bleeding Heart Libertarians, January 3, 2014.
Joshua McCabe, “The Political Failure of Basic Income Guarantee in the United States”, Bleeding Heart Libertarians, January 6, 2014.
Joshua McCabe, “Future Prospects for a Basic Income Guarantee in the United States”, Bleeding Heart Libertarians, January 7, 2014
Joshua McCabe, “Basic Income Roundup”, Bleeding Heart Libertarians, January 8, 2014
Thanks, Joshua, for your contribution to the debate of BIG in the U.S. I especially like your point about grandma defending her right to waste Social Security payments. You may be interested in my analysis of the problem with entitlements in our system, which is that they are created by the payroll tax. I propose eliminating the tax and replacing security in a policy paper, “Entitlement Reform: From Tangled Web to Safety Net,” which was published by Basic Income Studies a few months ago (http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/bis.2013.8.issue-1/bis-2013-0001/bis-2013-0001.xml?format=INT).