[Josh Martin]
In this post, Vognar jumps into a discussion on government guarantees, claiming that a minimum income guarantee like a universal basic income would be less heavy-handed than a job guarantee or other types of guarantees. An income floor would provide stability in the lives of those in poverty and would allow low-income workers to break away from unfair labor agreements with their employers. Vognar cites Martin Luther King Jr. and Charles Murray as ideologically opposed thinkers who both agree on supporting a minimum income; Vognar then goes on to claim that implementing a guaranteed minimum income will unleash a new wave of innovation and creativity in our individual passions that had been stifled by the current nine-to-five labor market structure.
David Vognar, “The Case for a Guaranteed Minimum Income”, Huffington Post, 8 July 2014
