Thomas Paine called for a Basic Income in 1797 financed by Land Value Taxation

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Frank de Jong

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Apr 20, 2020, 7:53:55 PM4/20/20
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John Riviere-Anderson

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Apr 20, 2020, 9:27:14 PM4/20/20
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Hi Frank,

I hope you and Tove are healthy and enjoying the quietude gone viral. I am: preparatory carpentry to receive bees and trout, and moving incontinent puppies about our briefly borrowed land, night and day.

Thanks for this most salient piece reminding us that Paine's LVT and egalitarian redistribution for basic income might yet today revolutionize by necessity our ecosocial diseases while a new disease rages, and Trump and his like dismantle decades of environmental safeguards. (Aren't converging catastrophes exciting!?) With apologies to Eliot, each in his Keynesian prison we think of the key.

My warmest to you both,

John

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BGHearns .

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Apr 25, 2020, 4:01:28 PM4/25/20
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Hey, Frank

I observe that every other day, some other group gets included in the government bail out. I wonder just how long it will take before they throw their hands up and just include everyone. It'd be simpler.

Bruce Hearns

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Apr 25, 2020, 5:30:39 PM4/25/20
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Frank

My version would be to provide universal necessities - health, education including free tuition, pharmacare, dental care, daycare, free public transportation, etc. ... If everyone benefited the political support would be much stronger.  Additionally all the measures would create more jobs in Canada, and make life much more affordable.

We need to spend more, but we need to practise triage with our resources. 

That initiative would need to be partnered with a full employment economy policy, which has so many benefits to human dignity.

Additional funding would be needed for those who can't work.

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