Lars Christensen. “There is a Pragmatic (but not a Libertarian) Case for a ‘Basic Income Guarantee’”.

by | Jan 15, 2014 | Research | 3 comments

Aynur Bashirova – January 2013

Lars Christensen, in his article published in the Market Monitarist, presents Milton Friedman’s idea of “negative income tax” in light of the arguments about BI brought forward by his friend Matt Zwolinski. Friedman had monetarist and liberal society ideas and one of his suggestions that attracted the author was the suggestion of negative income tax. His friend Zwolinski believes that BI needs to be directly distributed to poor as money check without conditions because there is a higher chance that the marginalized groups of society had ancestors that suffered from social injustices and they need to be compensated for that. Throughout the article, Christensen argues that he agrees with the general idea of BI, as proposed by Friedman and Zwolinski, but at the same time, he does not believe in the change of the monetary system in order to redistribute the income and neither thinks that it is as easy to do as it is presented.

Lars Christensen. “There is a Pragmatic (but not a Libertarian) Case for a ‘Basic Income Guarantee’”. The Market Monetarist, 8 December 2013.

3 Comments

  1. robert
    robert on January 20, 2014 at 7:44 am

    BIEN, you need to do some research before implying BI is not a Libertarian cause.

    I suggest:

    > http://www.libertarianinternational.org/apps/blog/show/5326376-lio-milton-friedman-libertarians-lead-largest-poverty-reduction-1st-viable-social-wage-program-in-history-so-there-

    >also

    http://www.libertarianinternational.org/apps/blog/show/5326376-lio-milton-friedman-libertarians-lead-largest-poverty-reduction-1st-viable-social-wage-program-in-history-so-there-

    This is the largest group working on the matter. Get on board.

    • USBIG
      USBIG on January 21, 2014 at 9:50 pm

      Robert, this is a summary of an article by Lars Christensen, who is a libertarian and who is writing in the libertarian journal the Market Monetarist. You seem to have confused Christensen’s opinion of what libertarians should do with BIEN’s opinions of what libertarianism is doing.

  2. robert
    robert on February 11, 2014 at 1:45 pm

    BIEN, you also seem to be confusing libertarians with Libertarians along with this poor fellow.

    Christensen is claiming Libertarians, who’re pledged by and follow LIO, have no case. He’s an ignoramus.

    Glad to see your continuing interest in the Libertarian approach here and UBI discussion in general.